Power Quotes - Page 17

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Leadership, Business, Women

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Word of mouth is very powerful.

  Jeff Bezos

  Powerful, Mouths, Word Of Mouth

  "Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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• Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

  John Milton

  Powerful, Military, War

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 648

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• O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Strenght, Self Control

  "Measure for Measure".

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• Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Weed, Lust, Mind

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.798, Hamilton Books

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• Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.

  Pierre Corneille

  Command, Please, Can Do

  "Sertorius". Book by Pierre Corneille, 1662.

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• The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Technique, Pursuit

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.164, Routledge

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• Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Funny, Money

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Power is like money. Some know how to get it; few know how to use it.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Use, Know How, Knows

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• Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

  Charles Simmons

  Determination, Trying, Might

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.513

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• Anything that you fight with or struggle against grows larger. You give power to lower energies by focusing upon them. You don't eliminate darkness by arguing with it. The only way to eliminate darkness is to turn on a light.

  Doreen Virtue

  Struggle, Fighting, Light

  FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Dec 29, 2011

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• We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Alive, Flattery, Speak

  "Of Great Nobles". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• There is a source of power in each of us that we don't realize until we take responsibility.

  Diane Nash

  Responsibility, Realizing, Civil Rights Movement

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• Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

  George Washington

  Money, Office, Abuse

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• Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.

  Frances Wright

  Pride, Vanity, Two

  Frances Wright (1821). “Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820”, p.426

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• Everything is generated through your own will power.

  Ray Bradbury

  Will Power

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.188, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Powerful, Men, Dancing

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• Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Political, Mistress

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• We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Powerful, Literature, Puppets

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• There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

  Bob Herbert

  Arrogance, Mixtures, Incompetence

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• We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

  George Orwell

  Intention, 1984 Important, Relinquishing

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Used, Ends, Instruments

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1988). “National and international dimensions”, p.394, Transaction Publishers

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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

  Corruption, Favourite, Said

  David Brin (1997). “The Postman”, GuildAmerica Books

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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.

  Michel Foucault

  Strength, Names, Structure

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.93, Vintage

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• The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry.

  Muhammad

  Strength, Being Strong, Powerful

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