Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Power

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Proverb, Arabian

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Baltasar Gracian

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

White, Theodore

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Malcolm X

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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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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Aeschylus

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria