Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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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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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Joseph Farrell

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Macmillan, Harold

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Amy Tan

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Friedman, Milton

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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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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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

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

Bible

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Cotvos

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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