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

1.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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

3.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

5.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

6.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

7.

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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

9.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

11.

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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

13.

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

Rostand, Jean

14.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

15.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

16.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

17.

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

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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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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

20.

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

21.

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

Lao-Tzu

22.

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

Boseley, Sarah

23.

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

Carnegie, Dale

24.

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

25.

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

Seneca

26.

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

Camus, Albert

27.

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

Eliot, T. S.

28.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

29.

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

Archimedes

30.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

31.

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

White, Theodore

32.

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

Steinem, Gloria

33.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

Smith, Sydney

35.

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

36.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

37.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

38.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

39.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.