Motivational Quotes

Power

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

- Macmillan, Harold

Best Quotes about Power

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

Aeschylus

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Friedman, Milton

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Seneca

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Kinkel

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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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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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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Steinem, Gloria

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Amy Tan

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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