Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Power

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Spanish

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

Adams, John

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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

Seneca

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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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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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kinkel

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Weil, Simone

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

White, Theodore

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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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 man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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