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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Cecil, Richard

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Malcolm X

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mann, Horace

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

31.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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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

50.

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.