Motivational Quotes

Power

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

- Accius

Best Quotes about Power

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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

Bible

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

Malcolm X

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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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.

Tilly

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

Seneca

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Friedman, Milton

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