Motivational Quotes

Power

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Aeschylus

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

15.

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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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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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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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

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Seneca

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

Henrik Ibsen

22.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

White, Theodore

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Fuller, Thomas

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Seneca

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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

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Proverb, Norse

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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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