Motivational Quotes

Power

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

- Mizner, Addison

Best Quotes about Power

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

Proverb, Arabian

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

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

Amy Tan

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

White, Theodore

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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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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Harry Shearer

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Seneca

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius