Motivational Quotes

Power

In oratory the will must predominate.

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Power

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Lao-Tzu

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Byrnes, James F.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

White, Theodore

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Malcolm X

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

Fuller, Thomas

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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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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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

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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 can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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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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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Steinem, Gloria

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.