Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Power

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Fuller, Thomas

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Hazlitt, William

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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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 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

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Cotvos

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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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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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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

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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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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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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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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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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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible