Motivational Quotes

Power

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Archimedes

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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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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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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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

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

Proverb

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Elie Wiesel

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Weil, Simone

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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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