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

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Malcolm X

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Wordsworth, William

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Proverb, Norse

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bible

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

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

Bannister, Roger

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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