Motivational Quotes

Power

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Power

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Banks, Harry F.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

Amy Tan

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

Carnegie, Dale

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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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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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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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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 world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Rostand, Jean

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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

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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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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer