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

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Russell, Bertrand

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Camus, Albert

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

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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 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

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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

Fuller, Thomas

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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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, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.

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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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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 world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Seneca

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.