Motivational Quotes

Power

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Rand, Ayn

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

White, Theodore

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

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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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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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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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 earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Macmillan, Harold

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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.