Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Power

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Tilly

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

11.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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

17.

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

Friedman, Milton

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

19.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Proverb, Spanish

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

27.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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 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's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Shakespeare, William

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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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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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Billings, Josh

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.