Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hamilton, Alexander

Best Quotes about Power

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Seneca

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Malcolm X

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

Rand, Ayn

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

16.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

19.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

20.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

21.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

23.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

25.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

27.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

29.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

31.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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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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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

34.

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 things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

38.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.