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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Bible

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Malcolm X

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

11.

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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Malcolm X

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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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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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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 creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Rostand, Jean

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Fromm, Erich

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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

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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

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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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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