Motivational Quotes

Power

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

- Capone, Al

Best Quotes about Power

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

Weil, Simone

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

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

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

Aeschylus

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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

Bible

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cotvos

10.

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

11.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

13.

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

Hazlitt, William

14.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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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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 exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Rand, Ayn

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

25.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

26.

Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

27.

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

Archimedes

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

Boseley, Sarah

30.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

31.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

32.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

Seneca

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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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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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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Proverb, Arabian

41.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.