Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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

Bible

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

10.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

12.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

16.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

17.

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

18.

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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bible

28.

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

31.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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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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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

39.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

40.

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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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

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

45.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Fuller, Thomas

49.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson