Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Power

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Capone, Al

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Bible

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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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Aeschylus

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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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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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

Billings, Josh

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Harry Shearer

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

Malcolm X

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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 tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

White, Theodore

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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

Henrik Ibsen

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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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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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Voice of one, voice of none.