Motivational Quotes

Power

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

- Barthes, Roland

Best Quotes about Power

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

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

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Byrnes, James F.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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

Archimedes

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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

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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

Bible

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Mann, Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Steinem, Gloria

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Seneca

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

Amy Tan

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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

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter