Motivational Quotes

Power

He has the power who the majority believe in.

- Raupach

Best Quotes about Power

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

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

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

Malcolm X

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

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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

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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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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Weil, Simone

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

Aeschylus

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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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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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!