Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Power

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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

Mann, Horace

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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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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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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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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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Baltasar Gracian

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Bannister, Roger

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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 we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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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 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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]