Motivational Quotes

Power

Man has will, but woman has her way.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Power

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Harry Shearer

10.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

11.

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

12.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Fuller, 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

15.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

22.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Friedman, Milton

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Hooker, Richard

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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

33.

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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

35.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

42.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

44.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He has the power who the majority believe in.