Motivational Quotes

Power

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Power

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

White, Theodore

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Boseley, Sarah

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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

Archimedes

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

Billings, Josh

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Alinsky, Saul

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Malcolm X

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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