Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Mann, Horace

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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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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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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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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

Amy Tan

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Malcolm X

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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.

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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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.