Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Capone, Al

Best Quotes about Power

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cecil, Richard

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Rostand, Jean

13.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

14.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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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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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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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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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

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

Herrich

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

Malcolm X

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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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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Malcolm X

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

Aeschylus

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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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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Boseley, Sarah

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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In oratory the will must predominate.