Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Power

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Kinkel

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

Hazlitt, William

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.

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

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

18.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

19.

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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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.

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Billings, Josh

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Seneca

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Rostand, Jean

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Yiddish

47.

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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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Friedman, Milton

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick