Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hooker, Richard

Best Quotes about Power

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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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

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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

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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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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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

Aeschylus

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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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