Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hamilton, Alexander

Best Quotes about Power

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Cecil, Richard

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Lao-Tzu

11.

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

Wieder, Marcia

12.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Steinem, Gloria

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Malcolm X

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Billings, Josh

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bible

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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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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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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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

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

Weil, Simone

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rand, Ayn

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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Malcolm X

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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