Motivational Quotes

Power

The greatest power is often simple patience.

- Cossman, E. Joseph

Best Quotes about Power

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

Seneca

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

Baltasar Gracian

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

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

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, 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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Hamilton, Alexander

37.

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.

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Henrik Ibsen

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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

Lord Macaulay

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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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