Motivational Quotes

Power

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Power

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

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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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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 doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

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

Archimedes

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Friedman, Milton

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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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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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Norse

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, 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 may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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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