Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lao-Tzu

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

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

11.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

31.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Harry Shearer

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

46.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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.