Motivational Quotes

Power

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Power

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Carnegie, Dale

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

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

Malcolm X

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

10.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

11.

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

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

14.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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

Friedman, Milton

16.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

17.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

18.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

19.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

20.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

21.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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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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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

27.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

28.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

29.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

30.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

31.

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

Proverb, Spanish

32.

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

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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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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 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 stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Malcolm X

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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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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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