Motivational Quotes

Power

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Carnegie, Dale

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

10.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

11.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

12.

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 ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

16.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

21.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

22.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

24.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

25.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

27.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Bible

31.

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

Banks, Harry F.

32.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

33.

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

39.

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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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

41.

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

Proverb, Norse

42.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Bible

46.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb