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

Seneca

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

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Boseley, Sarah

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Archimedes

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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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

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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Aeschylus

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.