Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Adams, John

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bacon, Francis

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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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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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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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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 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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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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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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Rostand, Jean

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 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.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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