Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Power

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Henrik Ibsen

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Steinem, Gloria

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.