Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Power

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

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

Friedman, Milton

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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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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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Joseph Farrell

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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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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Harry Shearer

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Aeschylus

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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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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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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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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

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Baldwin, James

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is the by-product of understanding.