Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Power

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Fuller, Thomas

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma