Motivational Quotes

Power

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Power

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

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

Malcolm X

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fromm, Erich

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

Mann, Horace

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Proverb, Norse

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

17.

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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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Alinsky, Saul

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

27.

The will of man is his happiness.

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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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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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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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

45.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Hooker, Richard