Motivational Quotes

Power

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Power

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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

Malcolm X

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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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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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 exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Aeschylus

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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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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Seneca

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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

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Alinsky, Saul

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin