Motivational Quotes

Power

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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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

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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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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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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

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Malcolm X

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Billings, Josh

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

32.

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 is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

White, Theodore

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Mann, Horace

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Joseph Farrell

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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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