Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Elie Wiesel

Best Quotes about Power

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thatcher, Margaret

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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

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

Steinem, Gloria

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Macmillan, Harold

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Apocrypha

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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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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

John Stuart Mill

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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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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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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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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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Hazlitt, William

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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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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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

34.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Harry Shearer

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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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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 most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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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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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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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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

Weil, Simone