Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Fuller, Thomas

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

10.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

11.

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

Hazlitt, William

12.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

13.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

14.

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

15.

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

Hill, Napoleon

16.

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

Cotvos

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

19.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

20.

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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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

23.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

24.

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

Carnegie, Dale

25.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

26.

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

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

30.

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

Russell, Bertrand

31.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

32.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

33.

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

Rand, Ayn

34.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

35.

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

Henrik Ibsen

36.

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

Joseph Farrell

37.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

40.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

41.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

44.

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

45.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

46.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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