Motivational Quotes

Power

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

- Barthes, Roland

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

2.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

3.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

4.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

5.

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

6.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

7.

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

Carnegie, Dale

8.

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

Kinkel

9.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

10.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

11.

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

12.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

13.

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

Malcolm X

14.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

15.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

16.

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

Fromm, Erich

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

19.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

20.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

21.

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.

22.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

25.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

26.

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

Wordsworth, William

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

30.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

31.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

32.

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

33.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

34.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

35.

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

36.

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

White, Theodore

37.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

39.

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

Mencken, H. L.

40.

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

Lao-Tzu

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

43.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

44.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

45.

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

Friedman, Milton

46.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

47.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

48.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

49.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

50.

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

Macmillan, Harold

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