Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Lao-Tzu

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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

Steinem, Gloria

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Hazlitt, William

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? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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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

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 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

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Malcolm X

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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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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Aeschylus