Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Power

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

Proverb, Norse

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Bertrand

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Hooker, Richard

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

12.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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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

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Joseph Farrell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Lindner, Robert

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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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.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

41.

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.

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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