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

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

Kinkel

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

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Archimedes

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Billings, Josh

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

Amy Tan

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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 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 have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall