Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Power

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.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Steinem, Gloria

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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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 is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Harry Shearer

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

Baldwin, James

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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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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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