Motivational Quotes

Power

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

- Mizner, Addison

Best Quotes about Power

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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 need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Malcolm X

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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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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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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

Friedman, Milton

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Malcolm X

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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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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.