Motivational Quotes

Power

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Power

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Steffens, Lincoln

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Kohe, J. Martin

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Seneca

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Baldwin, James

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Camus, Albert

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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 no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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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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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Mann, Horace

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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

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.