Motivational Quotes

Power

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

14.

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

Aeschylus

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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

Billings, Josh

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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

Mann, Horace

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Bible

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.