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 tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Seneca

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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

Weil, Simone

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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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

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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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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Billings, Josh

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Proverb, Norse

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