Motivational Quotes

Power

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

- Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Best Quotes about Power

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

11.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

12.

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 the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Bible

18.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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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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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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Tilly

34.

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

Amy Tan

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

42.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

47.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

Shaw, George Bernard