Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Power

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

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

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lindner, Robert

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

10.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

17.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Cotvos

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

29.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

30.

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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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Billings, Josh

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Baltasar Gracian

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