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

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Malcolm X

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

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Arabian

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Fuller, Thomas

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Mann, Horace

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Archimedes

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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

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

Kinkel

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.