Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Niebuhr, Reinhold

Best Quotes about Power

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Bible

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Weil, Simone

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

Elie Wiesel

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Adams, John

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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

Hazlitt, William

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Harry Shearer