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

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Seneca

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Smith, Sydney

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Seneca

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Barthes, Roland

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

23.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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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

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von