Motivational Quotes

Power

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Harry Shearer

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Hazlitt, William

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Henrik Ibsen

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Kinkel

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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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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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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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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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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