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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Archimedes

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

Lincoln, Abraham

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Aeschylus

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

Rostand, Jean

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Boseley, Sarah

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mann, Horace

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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 corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

32.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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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

34.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Seneca

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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

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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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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William