Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Best Quotes about Power

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

White, Theodore

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

Steinem, Gloria

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Cecil, Richard

12.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

13.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

16.

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

17.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

18.

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

Billings, Josh

19.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

20.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

21.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

29.

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

Seneca

31.

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

Bible

32.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

34.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

35.

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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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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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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

39.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

40.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

41.

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 consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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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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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

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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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

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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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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul