Motivational Quotes

Power

Voice of one, voice of none.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Power

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

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

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Lao-Tzu

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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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

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Malcolm X

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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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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Bible

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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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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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Harry Shearer

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

Bible

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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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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Amy Tan