Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Banks, Harry F.

Best Quotes about Power

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Malcolm X

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

Barthes, Roland

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

30.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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 exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

Camus, Albert

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