Motivational Quotes

Power

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

- Castaneda, Carlos

Best Quotes about Power

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Malcolm X

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

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Harry Shearer

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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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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 stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

30.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Boseley, Sarah

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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

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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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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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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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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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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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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.