Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

Malcolm X

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Apocrypha

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

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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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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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Proverb

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Archimedes

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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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 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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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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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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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert