Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Malcolm X

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

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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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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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Barthes, Roland

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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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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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Adams, John

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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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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Kinkel

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The will of man is his happiness.