Motivational Quotes

Power

Our power is in our ability to decide.

- Fuller, Buckminster

Best Quotes about Power

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Herrich

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Malcolm X

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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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

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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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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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

Kinkel

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

Mann, Horace

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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 sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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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 look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.