Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Power

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Henrik Ibsen

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Kinkel

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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

Malcolm X

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Boseley, Sarah

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Lord Macaulay

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Harry Shearer

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton