Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Byrnes, James F.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Amy Tan

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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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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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Aeschylus

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Seneca

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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 power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Henrik Ibsen

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.