Motivational Quotes

Power

In oratory the will must predominate.

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Power

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

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

Proverb, Norse

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Steinem, Gloria

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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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

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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.

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Baldwin, James

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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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 greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Proverb, Yiddish