Motivational Quotes

Power

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Power

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Camus, Albert

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Malcolm X

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

Henrik Ibsen

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Fuller, Thomas

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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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