Motivational Quotes

Power

Calmness is the cradle of power.

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Power

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Malcolm X

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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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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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Fromm, Erich

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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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 is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Billings, Josh

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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

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

Lindner, Robert

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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.