Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Kohe, J. Martin

Best Quotes about Power

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

Cecil, Richard

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Harry Shearer

17.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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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

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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 in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Friedman, Milton

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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 commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

50.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von