Motivational Quotes

Power

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Proverb, Yiddish

10.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Archimedes

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Macmillan, Harold

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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 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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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 stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aeschylus

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Weil, Simone

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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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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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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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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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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.