Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hamilton, Alexander

Best Quotes about Power

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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

Steinem, Gloria

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Fromm, Erich

10.

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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Mann, Horace

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

19.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Weil, Simone

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Macmillan, Harold

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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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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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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

Seneca

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aeschylus

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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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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

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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