Motivational Quotes

Power

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.

Best Quotes about Power

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

Bevan, Aneurin

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

10.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

11.

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

12.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

13.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

14.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

15.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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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 not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

18.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

19.

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

Carnegie, Dale

20.

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

Lao-Tzu

21.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

Wieder, Marcia

24.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

25.

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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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

32.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

39.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

40.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

41.

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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Einstein, Albert

45.

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 great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

48.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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