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

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

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

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.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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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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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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

Wordsworth, William

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Mann, Horace

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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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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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 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

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Weil, Simone

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Alinsky, Saul

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.