Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bacon, Francis

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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

Bible

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Kinkel

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Boehme, Jacob

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Seneca

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Malcolm X