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

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Bible

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Weil, Simone

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Fuller, Thomas

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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

Seneca

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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Amy Tan

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Lord Macaulay

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Wieder, Marcia

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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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

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.