Motivational Quotes

Power

The point of power is always in the present moment.

- Hay, Louise L.

Best Quotes about Power

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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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

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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

17.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

19.

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

Fromm, Erich

20.

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

24.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

25.

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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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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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

28.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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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

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

34.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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 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

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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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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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