Motivational Quotes

Power

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

- John Stuart Mill

Best Quotes about Power

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Baltasar Gracian

10.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

11.

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

Boseley, Sarah

12.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

14.

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Seneca

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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

17.

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

Friedman, Milton

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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 tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

21.

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

22.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Seneca

33.

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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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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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Shakespeare, William

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.