Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Aeschylus

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

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

Joseph Farrell

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Fuller, Thomas

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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.

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Weil, Simone

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

Proverb

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Henrik Ibsen

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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George