Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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

Malcolm X

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Cotvos

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

26.

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

Proverb, Norse

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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 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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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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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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

White, Theodore

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

41.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

42.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

43.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Wieder, Marcia

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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