Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Malcolm X

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Proverb

12.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Weil, Simone

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Proverb, Norse

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

White, Theodore

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Hazlitt, William

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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