Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Power

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Boseley, Sarah

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Aeschylus

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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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 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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Malcolm X

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Henrik Ibsen

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

White, Theodore