Motivational Quotes

Power

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Power

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Friedman, Milton

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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

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.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Bible

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

Smith, Sydney

18.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

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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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

21.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

22.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

25.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

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

Hooker, Richard

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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.

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

White, Theodore

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

40.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

42.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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.