Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Power

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Alinsky, Saul

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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

Apocrypha

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

Steffens, Lincoln

10.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

11.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

13.

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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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

15.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

17.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

18.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

19.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

20.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

21.

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

Eliot, T. S.

22.

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

23.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

24.

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

Weil, Simone

25.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

26.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

27.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

Mencken, H. L.

29.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

30.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

31.

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

Bible

32.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

33.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

34.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

35.

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

36.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

37.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

38.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

39.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

40.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

41.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

43.

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

44.

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

Macmillan, Harold

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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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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

49.

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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.