Motivational Quotes

Power

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

- Genet, Jean

Best Quotes about Power

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

Mencken, H. L.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

Apocrypha

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Seneca

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

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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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 stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

14.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Harry Shearer

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

25.

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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Elie Wiesel

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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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

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Aeschylus

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes