Motivational Quotes

Power

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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.

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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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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

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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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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Friedman, Milton

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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