Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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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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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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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hooker, Richard

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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

White, Theodore

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

Malcolm X

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