Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Lord Macaulay

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Capone, Al

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Harry Shearer

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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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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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A word after a word after a word is power.