Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

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.

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Proverb

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wordsworth, William

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Harry Shearer

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

Malcolm X

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bible

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Dale

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