Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- White, Theodore

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Malcolm X

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

Aeschylus

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Wordsworth, William

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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