Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Power

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

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

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

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Russell, Bertrand

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

10.

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

Bible

11.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

12.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

13.

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

Weil, Simone

14.

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

Proverb

15.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

16.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

17.

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

Joseph Farrell

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Malcolm X

20.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

21.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

22.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

24.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

25.

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

Malcolm X

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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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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, Arabian

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bevan, Aneurin

34.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Mencken, H. L.

40.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

43.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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.