Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Power

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

Proverb

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Bannister, Roger

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

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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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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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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 world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

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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

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Apocrypha

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Malcolm X

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

Harry Shearer

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

Friedman, Milton

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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 in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von