Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Friedman, Milton

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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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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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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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

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

White, Theodore

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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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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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Bacon, Francis

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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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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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.