Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Boseley, Sarah

Best Quotes about Power

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Rostand, Jean

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Archimedes

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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