Motivational Quotes

Power

In oratory the will must predominate.

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Adams, John

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

John Stuart Mill

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Wordsworth, William

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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Calmness is the cradle of power.