Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Herrich

Best Quotes about Power

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Thatcher, Margaret

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Bevan, Aneurin

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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

Malcolm X

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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

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Seneca

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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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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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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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