Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, Yiddish

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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

Carnegie, Dale

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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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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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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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Archimedes

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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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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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 mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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