Motivational Quotes

Power

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Power

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

Einstein, Albert

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Joseph Farrell

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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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

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Archimedes

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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 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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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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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

Kinkel

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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.

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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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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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

Malcolm X

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

Amy Tan

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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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney