Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Smith, Sydney

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

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Billings, Josh

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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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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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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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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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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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Adams, John

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kinkel

40.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Hooker, Richard

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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