Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

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

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Cecil, Richard

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Boseley, Sarah

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Rostand, Jean

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

10.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

11.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Aeschylus

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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

Proverb, Norse

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Shakespeare, William

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Friedman, Milton

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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.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Friedman, Milton

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Carnegie, Dale