Motivational Quotes

Power

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Cotvos

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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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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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Rand, Ayn

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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

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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

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Hazlitt, William

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.