Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Alinsky, Saul

Best Quotes about Power

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Bible

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

Steinem, Gloria

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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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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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

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Mann, Horace

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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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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

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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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 doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen