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

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Kohe, J. Martin

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, 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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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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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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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Harry Shearer

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Barthes, Roland

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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 is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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.