Motivational Quotes

Power

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Power

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Bible

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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 point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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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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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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.