Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Power

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

Cotvos

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

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

Billings, Josh

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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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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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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

Herrich

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Archimedes

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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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

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The law always limits every power it gives.