Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Power

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

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

Bible

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Proverb, Arabian

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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 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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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 fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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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

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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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

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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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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Malcolm X