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 oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Barthes, Roland

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

12.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Camus, Albert

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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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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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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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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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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

21.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Malcolm X

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

25.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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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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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

36.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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

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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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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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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

42.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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