Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hamilton, Alexander

Best Quotes about Power

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

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

Rostand, Jean

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Barthes, Roland

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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 thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

John Stuart Mill

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

26.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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

Harry Shearer

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Thatcher, 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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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 tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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 doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Proverb, Spanish