Motivational Quotes

Power

The will of man is his happiness.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Malcolm X

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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

Lindner, Robert

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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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

11.

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Seneca

13.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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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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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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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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

19.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

21.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Proverb, Norse

24.

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

Bible

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

28.

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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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

33.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

34.

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

Hooker, Richard

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Friedman, Milton

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Einstein, Albert

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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

Elie Wiesel

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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