Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Boseley, Sarah

Best Quotes about Power

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Alinsky, Saul

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

10.

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

Lord Macaulay

11.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

13.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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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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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Shakespeare, William

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Macmillan, Harold

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Proverb, Spanish

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall