Motivational Quotes

Power

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Rostand, Jean

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Billings, Josh

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Malcolm X

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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

Steinem, Gloria

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Weil, Simone

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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