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

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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

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

Kohe, J. Martin

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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

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

Malcolm X

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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 tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Aeschylus

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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 is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon