Motivational Quotes

Power

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

- Amy Tan

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Steffens, Lincoln

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Aeschylus

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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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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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In oratory the will must predominate.