Motivational Quotes

Power

Man was predestined to have free will.

- Luyah, Hal

Best Quotes about Power

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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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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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

White, Theodore

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Seneca

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Lindner, Robert

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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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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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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

Eliot, T. S.

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel