Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Power

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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 is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cotvos

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Malcolm X

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

White, Theodore

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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