Motivational Quotes

Power

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

- Byrnes, James F.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

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

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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

Hooker, Richard

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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

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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.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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

White, Theodore

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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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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

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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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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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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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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Weil, Simone

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred