Motivational Quotes

Power

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

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

Aeschylus

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

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

Malcolm X

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Kinkel

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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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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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Barthes, Roland

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Mann, Horace

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.