Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Power

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lao-Tzu

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

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

Hamilton, Alexander

11.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

12.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

16.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

17.

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

Malcolm X

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

34.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

39.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

40.

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

Steinem, Gloria

41.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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