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

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

Fuller, Thomas

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Malcolm X

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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

Proverb, Norse

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Cotvos

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Seneca

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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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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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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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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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Archimedes

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

Alinsky, Saul

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Boseley, Sarah

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Man was predestined to have free will.