Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Power

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Seneca

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Aeschylus

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

Carnegie, Dale

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Malcolm X

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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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

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

Seneca

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

39.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

40.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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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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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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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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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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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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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