Motivational Quotes

Power

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

- Macmillan, Harold

Best Quotes about Power

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Weil, Simone

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Billings, Josh

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

John Stuart Mill

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Joseph Farrell

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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

Malcolm X

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Aeschylus

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Proverb, Norse

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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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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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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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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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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William