Motivational Quotes

Power

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Power

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Carnegie, Dale

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 law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Bevan, Aneurin

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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 urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Billings, Josh

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

Swift, Jonathan

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Malcolm X

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.