Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Power

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

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Carnegie, Andrew

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

10.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

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

Rand, Ayn

12.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Aeschylus

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

22.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

24.

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

Bible

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

26.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

27.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

28.

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

Bacon, Francis

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

30.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

33.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mann, Horace

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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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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Seneca

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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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Bible

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.