Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Bible

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

Bible

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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 is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Cecil, Richard

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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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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

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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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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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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

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