Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Macarthur, Douglas

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

11.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

23.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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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 is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Malcolm X

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

Aeschylus

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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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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hamilton, Alexander

45.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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

Hill, Napoleon