Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lao-Tzu

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

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

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

10.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

11.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

23.

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

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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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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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.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

35.

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

Harry Shearer

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