Motivational Quotes

Power

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Best Quotes about Power

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

11.

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

Weil, Simone

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Billings, Josh

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Bible

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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.

38.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

40.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

41.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.