Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Power

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

Malcolm X

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Seneca

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Malcolm X

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

Seneca

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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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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

33.

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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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Harry Shearer

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The one who wills is the one who can.