Motivational Quotes

Power

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

- Havel, Vaclav

Best Quotes about Power

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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

White, Theodore

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

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

Amy Tan

10.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

12.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

13.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

14.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

15.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

16.

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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

18.

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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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

20.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Alinsky, Saul

25.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

27.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

28.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

32.

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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

34.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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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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

39.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Harry Shearer

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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