Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Power

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

White, Theodore

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Proverb

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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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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Bible

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

Harry Shearer

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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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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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