Motivational Quotes

Power

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Power

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Steinem, Gloria

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Malcolm X

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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 the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

White, Theodore

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.