Motivational Quotes

Power

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

- Propertius, Sextus

Best Quotes about Power

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Aeschylus

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

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

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

Bible

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

10.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

11.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

12.

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

Seneca

13.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

14.

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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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

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Billings, Josh

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Amy Tan

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.