Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

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

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Malcolm X

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bible

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

White, Theodore

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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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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hazlitt, William

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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

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

Billings, Josh

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le