Motivational Quotes

Power

The will of man is his happiness.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lao-Tzu

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

Apocrypha

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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 in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Shakespeare, William

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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A word after a word after a word is power.