Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Power

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

Alinsky, Saul

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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 creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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 commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Bible

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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 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-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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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Wieder, Marcia

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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