Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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

Friedman, Milton

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

13.

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 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.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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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 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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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Malcolm X

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Alinsky, Saul

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Aeschylus

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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