Motivational Quotes

Power

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Power

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lao-Tzu

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

13.

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

14.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

15.

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

Macmillan, Harold

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

17.

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

Proverb, Norse

18.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

19.

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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cecil, Richard

25.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

26.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

27.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

28.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Banks, Harry F.

31.

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

32.

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

Wieder, Marcia

33.

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

Steinem, Gloria

34.

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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

38.

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

Adams, John

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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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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

42.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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

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

Proverb

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace