Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Power

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

Amy Tan

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

10.

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

Weil, Simone

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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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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Alinsky, Saul

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Malcolm X

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

Malcolm X

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

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

Aeschylus

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

28.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Shakespeare, William

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The point of power is always in the present moment.