Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Elie Wiesel

Best Quotes about Power

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

Kohe, J. Martin

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Amy Tan

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

Malcolm X

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

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

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Herrich

11.

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Seneca

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Henrik Ibsen

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

32.

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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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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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Proverb, Norse

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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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

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Bacon, Francis