Motivational Quotes

Power

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

- Elie Wiesel

Best Quotes about Power

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Malcolm X

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

Cotvos

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

11.

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

Proverb, Norse

12.

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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Boseley, Sarah

15.

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

Bible

16.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Rand, Ayn

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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

21.

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

Proverb

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

30.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Harry Shearer

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

38.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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

40.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.