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In oratory the will must predominate.
- Hare, David
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Best Quotes about Power

1.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

2.
The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.
Kinkel

3.
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
Stevenson, Adlai E.

4.
Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.
Vere, Sir Aubrey De

5.
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
Disraeli, Benjamin

6.
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
Steinem, Gloria

7.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman

8.
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.
You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
Amy Tan

10.
The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
Johnson, Lyndon B.

11.
I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
Thatcher, Margaret

12.
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
Seneca

13.
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
Bacon, Francis

14.
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Lord Macaulay

15.
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
Henrik Ibsen

16.
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

17.
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.
The will of man is his happiness.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
Galbraith, John Kenneth

21.
What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
Lindner, Robert

22.
Voice of one, voice of none.
Proverb, Italian

23.
Power is the by-product of understanding.
Bronowski, Jacob

24.
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

25.
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

26.
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
Seneca

27.
Man has will, but woman has her way.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Alinsky, Saul

29.
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

30.
A word after a word after a word is power.
Atwood, Margaret

31.
Our power is in our ability to decide.
Fuller, Buckminster

32.
When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
Aeschylus

33.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Carnegie, Dale

34.
The greatest power is often simple patience.
Cossman, E. Joseph

35.
With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Wordsworth, William

36.
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

37.
The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either
Weil, Simone

38.
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Thatcher, Margaret

39.
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill

40.
He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
White, Theodore

42.
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

43.
Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.
Tilly

44.
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

45.
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
Foucault, Michel

46.
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Capone, Al

47.
A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]
Bible

48.
He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
Fuller, Thomas

49.
Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
Billings, Josh

50.
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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