Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Power

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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

Aeschylus

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

10.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Proverb, Norse

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

John Stuart Mill

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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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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Malcolm X

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Weil, Simone

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Archimedes

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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