Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Dworkin, Andrea

Best Quotes about Power

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

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Smith, Sydney

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

10.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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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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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

17.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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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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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Malcolm X

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

35.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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Power is the by-product of understanding.