Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Swift, Jonathan

10.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

12.

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

Alinsky, Saul

13.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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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 person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

18.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

19.

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

Friedman, Milton

20.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

21.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

22.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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.

24.

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

Banks, Harry F.

25.

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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

32.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

33.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

34.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

37.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

38.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

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

Elie Wiesel

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

45.

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

Boseley, Sarah

46.

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

Seneca

47.

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

48.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Hooker, Richard

50.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb