Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Power

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Herrich

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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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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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Wieder, Marcia

38.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lord Macaulay

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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

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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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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.