Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Amy Tan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Adams, John

10.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

11.

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 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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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 is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

22.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

23.

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

Rand, Ayn

25.

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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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Seneca

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Steinem, Gloria

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mann, Horace

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Seneca

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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