Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Henrik Ibsen

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

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

Bannister, Roger

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Aeschylus

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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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

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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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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

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Cotvos

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.