Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Bannister, Roger

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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 will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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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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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

21.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Einstein, Albert

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Cecil, Richard

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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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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Lord Macaulay

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.