Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Aeschylus

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Kinkel

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Bible

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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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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Henrik Ibsen

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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.

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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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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.