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The point of power is always in the present moment.
- Hay, Louise L.
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Best Quotes about Power

1.
A boy's will is the will of the wind.
Proverb, Norse

2.
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
Steinem, Gloria

3.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
Proverb, Chinese

4.
Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.
Apocrypha

5.
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
Steffens, Lincoln

6.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
Lao-Tzu

7.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman

8.
A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
Cicero, Marcus T.

9.
The one who wills is the one who can.
Proverb

10.
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Baltasar Gracian

11.
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.
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

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.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

15.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Fuller, Thomas

16.
The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either
Weil, Simone

17.
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.
The will of man is his happiness.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
Seneca

20.
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
Cooley, Charles Horton

21.
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Niebuhr, Reinhold

22.
Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
Hazlitt, William

24.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
Macarthur, Douglas

25.
The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
Ovid

26.
When the will is ready the feet are light.
Proverb

27.
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

28.
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
Hooker, Richard

29.
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.
Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
Billings, Josh

31.
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Elie Wiesel

32.
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill

33.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Carnegie, Andrew

34.
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
Lerner, Max

35.
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
Eliot, T. S.

36.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Jordan, William George

37.
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.

38.
In oratory the will must predominate.
Hare, David

39.
I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.
Kazantzakis, Nikos

40.
Voice of one, voice of none.
Proverb, Italian

41.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Einstein, Albert

42.
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
Cecil, Richard

43.
Calmness is the cradle of power.
Holland, Josiah Gilbert

44.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer

45.
Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.
Tilly

46.
What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
Lindner, Robert

47.
I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
Thatcher, Margaret

48.
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
Weil, Simone

49.
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

50.
The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]
Bible


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