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

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Shakespeare, William

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Lord Macaulay

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Byrnes, James F.

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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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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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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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 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.

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

Aeschylus

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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