Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Power

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

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.

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

Seneca

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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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Carnegie, Dale

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Kinkel

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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

Archimedes

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.