Motivational Quotes

Power

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

- Jordan, William George

Best Quotes about Power

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

Joseph Farrell

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

Fromm, Erich

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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

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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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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