Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Power

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

Elie Wiesel

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Dworkin, Andrea

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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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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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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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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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Aeschylus

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

Proverb, Spanish

25.

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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Weil, Simone

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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 the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Seneca

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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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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Shakespeare, William

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.