Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Alinsky, Saul

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Malcolm X

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Steinem, Gloria

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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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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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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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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

Malcolm X

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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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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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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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

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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

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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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