Motivational Quotes

Power

A word after a word after a word is power.

- Atwood, Margaret

Best Quotes about Power

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kinkel

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Tilly

10.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Hill, Napoleon

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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

Aeschylus

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Lord Macaulay

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Shakespeare, William

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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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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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.