Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Power

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Proverb, Arabian

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Rostand, Jean

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Boseley, Sarah

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

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

Fromm, Erich

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.