Motivational Quotes

Power

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Power

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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

Smith, Sydney

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Bible

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

13.

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

Adams, John

14.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

16.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

17.

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

Fuller, Thomas

18.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

20.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

21.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

22.

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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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

24.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

27.

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

Aeschylus

28.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

30.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

31.

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

Weil, Simone

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

33.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

34.

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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

36.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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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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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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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

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

Cecil, Richard

42.

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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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.