Motivational Quotes

Power

Personal power is the ability to take action.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Power

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

John Stuart Mill

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Byrnes, James F.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Malcolm X

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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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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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Adams, John

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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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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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

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

Wieder, Marcia

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Aeschylus

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Man was predestined to have free will.