Motivational Quotes

Power

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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

Aeschylus

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Malcolm X

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

18.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

19.

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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

21.

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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

23.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Rostand, Jean

30.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

31.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Baltasar Gracian

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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