Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Kohe, J. Martin

Best Quotes about Power

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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.

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Boseley, Sarah

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

10.

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

Steinem, Gloria

11.

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

Bacon, Francis

12.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Rostand, Jean

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Malcolm X

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

Aeschylus

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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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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

31.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Lord Macaulay

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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

44.

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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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.