Motivational Quotes

Power

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

- Cotvos

Best Quotes about Power

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Mann, Horace

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

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Bannister, Roger

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Weil, Simone

12.

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

Carnegie, Dale

13.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

14.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

15.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

16.

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

17.

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

Archimedes

18.

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

Cecil, Richard

19.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

Kinkel

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

24.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Rand, Ayn

29.

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

Wieder, Marcia

30.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Swift, Jonathan

32.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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

34.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

35.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Malcolm X

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

40.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

41.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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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

43.

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

Seneca

44.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

45.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

46.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

48.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.