Motivational Quotes

Power

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

- Henrik Ibsen

Best Quotes about Power

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

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

Smith, Sydney

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

Kinkel

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

10.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

11.

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

Aeschylus

12.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

13.

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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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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

21.

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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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

Fuller, Thomas

24.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

29.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Bible

34.

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

Rand, Ayn

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Hooker, Richard

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Malcolm X

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.