Motivational Quotes

Power

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Power

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Aeschylus

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

Henrik Ibsen

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Amy Tan

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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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Billings, Josh

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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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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Malcolm X

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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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.

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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

White, Theodore

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.