Motivational Quotes

Power

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

- Archimedes

Best Quotes about Power

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Malcolm X

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Boseley, Sarah

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bible

31.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

32.

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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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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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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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

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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

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

Cotvos

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

Kinkel

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.