Motivational Quotes

Power

Power tires only those who do not have it.

- Andreotti, Giulio

Best Quotes about Power

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Cotvos

10.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

22.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

23.

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

Rostand, Jean

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

25.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Aeschylus

27.

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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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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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

30.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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.

Foucault, Michel

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von