Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Alinsky, Saul

Best Quotes about Power

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Malcolm X

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Aeschylus

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Lindner, Robert

33.

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

Rand, Ayn

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, Spanish

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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 need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter