Motivational Quotes

Power

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Best Quotes about Power

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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.

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

Eliot, T. S.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

White, Theodore

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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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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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.

Frost, Robert

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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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

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.