Motivational Quotes

Power

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Power

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

Archimedes

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

White, Theodore

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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 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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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

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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

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Carnegie, Dale

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Alinsky, Saul

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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