Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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

Steffens, Lincoln

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

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

11.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

Weil, Simone

14.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

17.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

18.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

19.

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

20.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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

22.

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

Banks, Harry F.

23.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

24.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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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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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

27.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

31.

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

Proverb, Spanish

32.

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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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

34.

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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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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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Russell, Bertrand

40.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

42.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

44.

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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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

46.

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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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

48.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

49.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.