Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- White, Theodore

Best Quotes about Power

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Steffens, Lincoln

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Boseley, Sarah

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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