Motivational Quotes

Power

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Power

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bevan, Aneurin

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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

Steinem, Gloria

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

11.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

White, Theodore

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Bible

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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