Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Power

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aeschylus

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Thatcher, Margaret

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Malcolm X

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Kinkel

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.