Motivational Quotes

Power

Man has will, but woman has her way.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Power

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

12.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

15.

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

Mann, Horace

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

18.

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

Kinkel

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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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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Friedman, Milton

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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.

33.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

40.

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 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 person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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