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

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

Proverb, Arabian

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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

Carnegie, Andrew

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Camus, Albert

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

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

Malcolm X

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Bible

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Mann, Horace

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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

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Harry Shearer

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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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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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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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.