Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Harry Shearer

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Hendrix, Jimi

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

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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

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

Kinkel

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Bible

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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