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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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

Seneca

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

Bevan, Aneurin

10.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

11.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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

Weil, Simone

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

37.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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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 in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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.