Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Power

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

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

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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 secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

33.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wieder, Marcia

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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.

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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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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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield