Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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

White, Theodore

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Hendrix, Jimi

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Billings, Josh

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Lao-Tzu

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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 creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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 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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lao-Tzu

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander