Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Power

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

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Aeschylus

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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

Malcolm X

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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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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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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

Lord Macaulay

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

White, Theodore

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Malcolm X

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Proverb, Spanish

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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