Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Power

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Boseley, Sarah

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Steinem, Gloria

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Seneca

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.