Motivational Quotes

Power

He has the power who the majority believe in.

- Raupach

Best Quotes about Power

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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

Mencken, H. L.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Spanish

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

12.

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

Bible

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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

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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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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Aeschylus

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Malcolm X

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Harry Shearer

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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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 stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Cotvos

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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