Motivational Quotes

Power

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Power

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

14.

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 exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

20.

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

Rostand, Jean

21.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

22.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

23.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hamilton, Alexander

25.

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

Proverb, Norse

26.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

27.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

28.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

29.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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

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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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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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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.

39.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

40.

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

Aeschylus

41.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

42.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

43.

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

Cotvos

44.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand