Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Best Quotes about Power

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Joseph Farrell

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Cotvos

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Malcolm X

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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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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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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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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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 price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Archimedes

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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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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Barthes, Roland

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George