Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Macmillan, Harold

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Rostand, Jean

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

John Stuart Mill

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Harry Shearer

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Billings, Josh

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Camus, Albert

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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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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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Lord Macaulay

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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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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 is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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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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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Kinkel

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?