Motivational Quotes

Power

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

- Mizner, Addison

Best Quotes about Power

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bible

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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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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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Harry Shearer

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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

Rostand, Jean

33.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

37.

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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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

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Thatcher, Margaret