Motivational Quotes

Power

Man has will, but woman has her way.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Power

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

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Amy Tan

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

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

10.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

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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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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

20.

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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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Herrich

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Steinem, Gloria

36.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Malcolm X

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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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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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