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

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

Cotvos

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

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

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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

Mencken, H. 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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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Havel, Vaclav

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Harry Shearer

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fuller, Thomas

49.

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

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian