Motivational Quotes

Power

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

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Best Quotes about Power

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

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Amy Tan

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

Friedman, Milton

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hazlitt, William

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aeschylus

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Weil, Simone

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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

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

Fromm, Erich

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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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.