Motivational Quotes

Power

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

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

Baltasar Gracian

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Amy Tan

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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

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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

Seneca

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

Baldwin, James

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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

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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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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Elie Wiesel

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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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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Seneca

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Hazlitt, William

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Alinsky, Saul

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.