Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

Fuller, Thomas

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Lao-Tzu

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Capone, Al

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

Mann, Horace

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.

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

11.

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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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

16.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

20.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

21.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

24.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

25.

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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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

28.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

29.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

30.

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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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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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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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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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

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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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

38.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

40.

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 exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

43.

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

Aeschylus

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Friedman, Milton