Motivational Quotes

Power

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Power

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

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 may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Aeschylus

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Malcolm X

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Bible

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

White, Theodore

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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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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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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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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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

Camus, Albert