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

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Kinkel

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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 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 we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

30.

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

Amy Tan

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Rostand, Jean

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Malcolm X

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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 doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.