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

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

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Elie Wiesel

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Byrnes, James F.

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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

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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