Motivational Quotes

Power

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

- Capone, Al

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Friedman, Milton

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Seneca

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

Harry Shearer

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Billings, Josh

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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 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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb