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 creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

10.

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

Henrik Ibsen

11.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

12.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Malcolm X

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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

25.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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