Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Rand, Ayn

Best Quotes about Power

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Seneca

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

Cotvos

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

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

Proverb, Arabian

11.

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

12.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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

Bible

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

17.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

18.

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

19.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

21.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

23.

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

Apocrypha

24.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

25.

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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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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

28.

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

29.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

30.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

31.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

37.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

40.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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 what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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

Billings, Josh

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

48.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo