Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Power

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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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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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Malcolm X

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

23.

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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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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 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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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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

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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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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

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kinkel

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.