Motivational Quotes

Power

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

- Henrik Ibsen

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Hill, Napoleon

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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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 so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

24.

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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Einstein, Albert

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

41.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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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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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

Baltasar Gracian