Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Power

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Proverb, Norse

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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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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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bible

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

Bible

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

Billings, Josh

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Malcolm X

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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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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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea