Motivational Quotes

Power

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

- Cooley, Charles Horton

Best Quotes about Power

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Harry Shearer

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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 one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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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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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Hooker, Richard

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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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

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Macmillan, Harold

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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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

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.