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

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

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

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

Herrich

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

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

Seneca

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

White, Theodore

10.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

11.

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

Smith, Sydney

12.

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

13.

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

Friedman, Milton

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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

15.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

17.

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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

20.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

21.

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

Hazlitt, William

22.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

23.

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

Billings, Josh

24.

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

Banks, Harry F.

25.

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

Lindner, Robert

26.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Proverb, Norse