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

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

Henrik Ibsen

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Adams, John

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

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

Harry Shearer

11.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

White, Theodore

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

25.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Aeschylus

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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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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Bevan, Aneurin

37.

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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

40.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

48.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Steinem, Gloria