Motivational Quotes

Power

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Power

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Barthes, Roland

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Bible

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Cotvos

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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

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

Bible

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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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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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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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 can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Boseley, Sarah

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Harry Shearer

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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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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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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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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von