Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Power

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

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 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

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Hill, Napoleon

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

11.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Malcolm X

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Seneca

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

Seneca

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

39.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Kinkel

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Personal power is the ability to take action.