Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Steinem, Gloria

Best Quotes about Power

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Proverb, Norse

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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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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

Malcolm X

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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

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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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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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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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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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Herrich

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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

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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.

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

Seneca

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

Kinkel

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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 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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Henrik Ibsen

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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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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.