Motivational Quotes

Power

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

- Niebuhr, Reinhold

Best Quotes about Power

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

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Amy Tan

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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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 stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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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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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.

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

Aeschylus

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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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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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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

29.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

34.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

Boseley, Sarah

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le