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

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

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Shakespeare, William

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

10.

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

Joseph Farrell

11.

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

Rand, Ayn

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

14.

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

Apocrypha

15.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

17.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

18.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

22.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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

24.

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

Archimedes

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

26.

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 will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

28.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

29.

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

Adams, John

30.

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

Proverb, Norse

31.

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

32.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Kohe, J. Martin

36.

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

Kinkel

37.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

40.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

41.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

44.

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

Baltasar Gracian

45.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

46.

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

Bible

49.

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

Seneca