Motivational Quotes

Power

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Power

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

Dworkin, Andrea

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Hamilton, Alexander

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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.

Bruyere, Jean De La

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Aeschylus

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

Lindner, Robert

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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 creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.