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

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Joseph Farrell

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

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Wieder, Marcia

13.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Proverb

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

26.

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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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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

Kinkel

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

White, Theodore

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, Norse

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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

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal