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

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

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Camus, Albert

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

Hazlitt, William

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Adams, John

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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 can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Malcolm X

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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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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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

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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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

40.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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