Motivational Quotes

Power

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Hooker, Richard

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Aeschylus

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

14.

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

Kinkel

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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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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

17.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Bannister, Roger

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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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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Bible

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Will is character in action.