Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Power

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Archimedes

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

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

Bible

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

Carnegie, Andrew

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

10.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

Mann, Horace

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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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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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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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Fuller, Thomas

19.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

20.

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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Barthes, Roland

30.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

34.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

44.

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

Rand, Ayn

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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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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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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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, 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