Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Kinkel

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Amy Tan

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Billings, Josh

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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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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Malcolm X

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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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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

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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