Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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

Hamilton, Alexander

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Adams, John

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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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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

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

29.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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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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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Malcolm X