Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fuller, Thomas

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Macmillan, Harold

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Cotvos

10.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

11.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

30.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

32.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

33.

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

Bible

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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

37.

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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

40.

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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.