Motivational Quotes

Power

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

- Vaneigem, Raoul

Best Quotes about Power

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

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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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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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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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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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Proverb, Yiddish

31.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

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

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop