Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Hooker, Richard

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

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

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

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Malcolm X

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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.

Rostand, Jean

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aeschylus

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kinkel

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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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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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

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