Motivational Quotes

Power

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Power

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

Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

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

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Harry Shearer

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Aeschylus

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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.

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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

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

John Stuart Mill

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

Steinem, Gloria

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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