Motivational Quotes

Power

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Power

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

Smith, Sydney

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Proverb

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Rand, Ayn

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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.

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

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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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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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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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.

Genet, Jean

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Aeschylus

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Friedman, Milton

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Malcolm X

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

37.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fromm, Erich

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?