Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Archimedes

Best Quotes about Power

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

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Amy Tan

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

Seneca

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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

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

10.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Dworkin, Andrea

15.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

16.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

22.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

24.

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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

26.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

27.

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

Malcolm X

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

Archimedes

39.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

40.

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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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

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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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]