Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Power

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hazlitt, William

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lao-Tzu

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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 urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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.

Patton, George S.

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Elie Wiesel

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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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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

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.