Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

10.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Kinkel

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

Seneca

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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

28.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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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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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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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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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bible

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Byrnes, James F.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James