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

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

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hooker, Richard

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Hazlitt, William

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Aeschylus

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Aeschylus

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

Seneca

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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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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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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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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