Motivational Quotes

Power

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

- Vaneigem, Raoul

Best Quotes about Power

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Malcolm X

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Boseley, Sarah

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Adams, John

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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