Motivational Quotes

Power

Calmness is the cradle of power.

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Power

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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

Peter, Laurence J.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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

Malcolm X

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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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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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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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

15.

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

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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

17.

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

Proverb, Spanish

18.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Smith, Sydney

26.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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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

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

32.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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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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

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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 most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Malcolm X

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Boseley, Sarah

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger