Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Amy Tan

Best Quotes about Power

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.

Rostand, Jean

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

Thatcher, Margaret

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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

Harry Shearer

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

Malcolm X

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

Aeschylus

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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 is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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 is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Friedman, Milton

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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 purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Adams, John

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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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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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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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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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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