Motivational Quotes

Power

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

- Elie Wiesel

Best Quotes about Power

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

John Stuart Mill

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Hendrix, Jimi

11.

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

Weil, Simone

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

13.

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

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Harry Shearer

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

Shakespeare, William

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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

Adams, John

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

Malcolm X

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Aeschylus

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

Seneca