Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Seneca

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Malcolm X

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Fromm, Erich

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Weil, Simone

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

John Stuart Mill

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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

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

White, Theodore

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

Hill, Napoleon

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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

Harry Shearer

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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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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von