Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

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

Seneca

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

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Billings, Josh

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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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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 creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo