Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Power

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Hooker, Richard

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

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

Bannister, Roger

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Apocrypha

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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 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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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Archimedes

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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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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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