Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Power

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Alinsky, Saul

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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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

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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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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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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 who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

Malcolm X

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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

White, Theodore

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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.