Motivational Quotes

Power

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

- Wieder, Marcia

Best Quotes about Power

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Adams, John

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

10.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

15.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

16.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

18.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

20.

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

Boseley, Sarah

21.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Amy Tan

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Malcolm X

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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.

34.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

35.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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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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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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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 attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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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