Motivational Quotes

Power

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

- Morgenthau, Hans J.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Weil, Simone

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

Bible

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

11.

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

Hazlitt, William

12.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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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.

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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

16.

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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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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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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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

22.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

23.

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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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

25.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

26.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

30.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

33.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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

35.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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

37.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Alinsky, Saul

39.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

40.

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

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

White, Theodore

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

43.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

49.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.