Motivational Quotes

Power

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.

Best Quotes about Power

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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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

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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 is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lao-Tzu

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

Aeschylus

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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.

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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