Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Mann, Horace

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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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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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Seneca

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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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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

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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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 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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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.

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Smith, Sydney

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius