Motivational Quotes

Power

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

- Tilly

Best Quotes about Power

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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 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

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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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 one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Hazlitt, William

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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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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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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

Friedman, Milton

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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

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Malcolm X

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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