Motivational Quotes

Power

In oratory the will must predominate.

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Power

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Thatcher, Margaret

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Malcolm X

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Boseley, Sarah

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Fuller, Thomas

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Archimedes

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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.