Motivational Quotes

Power

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Malcolm X

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

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Henrik Ibsen

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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.

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Aeschylus

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

White, Theodore

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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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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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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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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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Malcolm X

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Aeschylus

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