Motivational Quotes

Power

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Power

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

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

White, Theodore

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

Malcolm X

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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 gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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 least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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

Bible

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.