Motivational Quotes

Power

Voice of one, voice of none.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Power

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

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Camus, Albert

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Thatcher, Margaret

10.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

11.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

13.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

15.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Kohe, J. Martin

21.

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Bible

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Friedman, Milton

31.

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

Amy Tan

32.

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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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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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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Malcolm X

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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