Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Power

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

Baldwin, James

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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

Weil, Simone

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

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

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

White, Theodore

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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

Tilly

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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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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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Dale

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.