Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Baldwin, James

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Roper, Elmo

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Weil, Simone

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Mann, Horace

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

Apocrypha

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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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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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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

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Seneca

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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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 consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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