Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Apocrypha

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Billings, Josh

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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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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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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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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 stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

41.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

42.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

Malcolm X

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo