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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

John Stuart Mill

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Fuller, Thomas

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

10.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

11.

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

Aeschylus

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Adams, John

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fromm, Erich

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lindner, Robert

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

30.

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

31.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Malcolm X

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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