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

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Fuller, Thomas

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Kinkel

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Aeschylus

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Seneca

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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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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Bible

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Mann, Horace

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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