Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Rand, Ayn

Best Quotes about Power

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

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Seneca

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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

Adams, John

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Hazlitt, William

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

Joseph Farrell

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

Camus, Albert

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Swift, Jonathan

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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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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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

36.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Malcolm X

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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