Motivational Quotes

Power

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

- Steinem, Gloria

Best Quotes about Power

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

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

11.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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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

15.

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

Amy Tan

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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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

19.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

22.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

25.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

26.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

28.

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 gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

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

Steinem, Gloria

33.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Malcolm X

35.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

36.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

John Stuart Mill

45.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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