Motivational Quotes

Power

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

- Bruyere, Jean De La

Best Quotes about Power

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

White, Theodore

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

10.

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

Weil, Simone

11.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Alinsky, Saul

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

17.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

18.

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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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

Banks, Harry F.

25.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

26.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

28.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Tilly

33.

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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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Smith, Sydney

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.