Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Tilly

Best Quotes about Power

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

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 thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

White, Theodore

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

10.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

11.

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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Smith, Sydney

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Bible

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.