Motivational Quotes

Power

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

- Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Best Quotes about Power

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

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Capone, Al

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

11.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

12.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

13.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

15.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

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

Aeschylus

17.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

18.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

19.

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Billings, Josh

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Steinem, Gloria

26.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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

Seneca

28.

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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

35.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Friedman, Milton

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

40.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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.