Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Malcolm X

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Baldwin, James

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

Bible

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Malcolm X

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

John Stuart Mill

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

White, Theodore

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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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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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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Kinkel

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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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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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria