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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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Best Quotes about Power

1.
Man was predestined to have free will.
Luyah, Hal

2.
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

3.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Bevan, Aneurin

4.
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

5.
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Baltasar Gracian

6.
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
White, Theodore

7.
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
Steinem, Gloria

8.
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

9.
Our power is in our ability to decide.
Fuller, Buckminster

10.
The will of man is his happiness.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Hoffer, Eric

12.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
Macarthur, Douglas

13.
Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
Billings, Josh

14.
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
Amiel, Henri Frederic

15.
I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
Thatcher, Margaret

16.
From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
Camus, Albert

17.
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

18.
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

19.
Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
Hill, Napoleon

20.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.
Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
Morgenthau, Hans J.

22.
When the will is ready the feet are light.
Proverb

23.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman

24.
We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.
Tilney, Dr. Frederick

25.
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

26.
Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.
Proverb

27.
The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.
Shakespeare, William

28.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.
Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Lincoln, Abraham

30.
Power is the by-product of understanding.
Bronowski, Jacob

31.
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Thatcher, Margaret

32.
If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.
Proverb, Arabian

33.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Carnegie, Andrew

34.
Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.
Archimedes

35.
He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
Fuller, Thomas

36.
You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
Amy Tan

37.
Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.
Banks, Harry F.

38.
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
Bacon, Francis

39.
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

40.
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
Hooker, Richard

41.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet

42.
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

43.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Dr. Thomas Fuller

44.
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Kissinger, Henry

45.
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
Steffens, Lincoln

46.
Personal power is the ability to take action.
Robbins, Anthony

47.
If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
Seneca

48.
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
Kohe, J. Martin

49.
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

50.
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


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