Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

Jordan, William George

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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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 is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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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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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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

Harry Shearer

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Cotvos

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Seneca

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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