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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Kinkel

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Malcolm X

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

Amy Tan

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Aeschylus

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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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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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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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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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.