Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Power

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Macarthur, Douglas

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Malcolm X

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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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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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Billings, Josh

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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.

22.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

23.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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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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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 is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

43.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lord Macaulay

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus