Motivational Quotes

Power

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

- Capone, Al

Best Quotes about Power

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

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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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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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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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

19.

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

Proverb, Norse

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

27.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Shakespeare, William

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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 exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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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.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

White, Theodore

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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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

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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 not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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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.