Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Power

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Bible

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Aeschylus

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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

Adams, John

10.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

11.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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

Fromm, Erich

13.

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

Weil, Simone

14.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

15.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

16.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

20.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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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

24.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

25.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

26.

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

Rand, Ayn

27.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

32.

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

33.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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

Malcolm X

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

Camus, Albert

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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

40.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

41.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

42.

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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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

44.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman