Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Weil, Simone

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

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

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, Arabian

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.

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

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

Friedman, Milton

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Billings, Josh

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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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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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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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

White, Theodore

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

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