Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Banks, Harry F.

Best Quotes about Power

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Seneca

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

Proverb

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Cotvos

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

Dworkin, Andrea

10.

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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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

White, Theodore

18.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

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

Amy Tan

21.

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

Kinkel

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

23.

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

Seneca

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

25.

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

Proverb, Norse

27.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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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 is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

33.

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Joseph Farrell

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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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