Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Dworkin, Andrea

Best Quotes about Power

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Wieder, Marcia

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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 tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Norse

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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 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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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Malcolm X

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Billings, Josh

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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 Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bible

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Thatcher, Margaret