Motivational Quotes

Power

Calmness is the cradle of power.

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Power

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

Dworkin, Andrea

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

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

Macarthur, Douglas

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

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

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

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Billings, Josh

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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 like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Aeschylus

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Malcolm X

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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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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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Boseley, Sarah

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