Motivational Quotes

Power

The point of power is always in the present moment.

- Hay, Louise L.

Best Quotes about Power

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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

Boseley, Sarah

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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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 doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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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 you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

John Stuart Mill

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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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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Apocrypha

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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