Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Archimedes

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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.

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Lord Macaulay

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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Malcolm X

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Power tires only those who do not have it.