Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Power

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

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Malcolm X

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Kinkel

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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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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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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Adams, John

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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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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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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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