Motivational Quotes

Power

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

- Bannister, Roger

Best Quotes about Power

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Macmillan, Harold

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Peter, Laurence J.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Barthes, Roland

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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

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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 power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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Power is the by-product of understanding.