Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Macmillan, Harold

Best Quotes about Power

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

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Kinkel

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Malcolm X

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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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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Baltasar Gracian

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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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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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

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Cecil, Richard

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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

Aeschylus

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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 is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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.