Motivational Quotes

Power

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Power

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

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

Macarthur, Douglas

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Billings, Josh

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Weil, Simone

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

Malcolm X

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

White, Theodore

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Hooker, Richard

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Seneca

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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