Motivational Quotes

Power

In oratory the will must predominate.

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Boseley, Sarah

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Adams, John

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

Aeschylus

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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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

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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

Malcolm X

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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

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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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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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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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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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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.