Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Power

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Peter, Laurence J.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

10.

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

Bible

11.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

12.

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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Shakespeare, William

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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 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

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Aeschylus

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Malcolm X

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Banks, Harry F.

37.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Billings, Josh

43.

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

Rostand, Jean

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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