Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Bannister, Roger

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

John Stuart Mill

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Castaneda, Carlos

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Kinkel

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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 stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lord Macaulay

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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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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.