Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Camus, Albert

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

Macmillan, Harold

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Archimedes

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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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

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

Aeschylus

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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