Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Malcolm X

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Malcolm X

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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

White, Theodore

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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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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.