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

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Bible

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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

Dworkin, Andrea

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Billings, Josh

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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 creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Malcolm X

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

Harry Shearer

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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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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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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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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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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