Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Barthes, Roland

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

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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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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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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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

Aeschylus

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Boseley, Sarah

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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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.