Motivational Quotes

Power

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Power

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

17.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

18.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

20.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

21.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

22.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

28.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

30.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

31.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

33.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

35.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.