Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Proverb, Norse

Best Quotes about Power

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Malcolm X

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

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Hooker, Richard

10.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

11.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

14.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Bible

19.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

20.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

21.

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

Apocrypha

22.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

24.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

John Stuart Mill

27.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

30.

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

Weil, Simone

31.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

32.

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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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

34.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

35.

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

Proverb, Norse

36.

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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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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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

40.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

41.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

44.

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

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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

Thatcher, Margaret

48.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander