Motivational Quotes

Power

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Power

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Hamilton, Alexander

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Alinsky, Saul

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Boseley, Sarah

10.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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

Rand, Ayn

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

27.

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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

39.

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

Amy Tan

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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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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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

Friedman, Milton

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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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.