Motivational Quotes

Power

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

- Kinkel

Best Quotes about Power

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

Bannister, Roger

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

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Shakespeare, William

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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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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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Carnegie, Dale

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Seneca

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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

Herrich

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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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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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Malcolm X

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Aeschylus

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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