Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Power

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

Thatcher, Margaret

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Baldwin, James

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Steinem, Gloria

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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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 power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

Archimedes

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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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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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.