Motivational Quotes

Power

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

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

Elie Wiesel

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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.

Patton, George S.

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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

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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

32.

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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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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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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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Fromm, Erich

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.