Motivational Quotes

Power

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Power

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Friedman, Milton

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

White, Theodore

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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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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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Lord Macaulay

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Bible

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Malcolm X

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

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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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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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

34.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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 corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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When the will is ready the feet are light.