Motivational Quotes

Power

Power tires only those who do not have it.

- Andreotti, Giulio

Best Quotes about Power

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

Peter, Laurence J.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Cotvos

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Aeschylus

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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Malcolm X

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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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

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Aeschylus

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Harry Shearer

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Fuller, Thomas