Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Elie Wiesel

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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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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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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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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.