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

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Kinkel

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

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Malcolm X

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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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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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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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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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 doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Bible

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Boseley, Sarah

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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