Motivational Quotes

Power

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Power

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Aeschylus

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Seneca

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Malcolm X

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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 law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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 one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Seneca

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

Apocrypha

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Bacon, Francis

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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