Motivational Quotes

Power

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Power

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Lindner, Robert

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

10.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

11.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

Tilly

13.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Malcolm X

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

23.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

25.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

30.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

40.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.