Motivational Quotes

Power

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

- Archimedes

Best Quotes about Power

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Weil, Simone

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Aeschylus

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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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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Malcolm X

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Joseph Farrell

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

Hazlitt, William

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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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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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

45.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Adams, John

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von