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

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

Adams, John

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

Banks, Harry F.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Alinsky, Saul

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Lord Macaulay

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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Camus, Albert

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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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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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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

Barthes, Roland

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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 will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Amy Tan

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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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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.