Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Wordsworth, William

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

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

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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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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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Malcolm X

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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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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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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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

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo