Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Best Quotes about Power

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

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bible

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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

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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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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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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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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