Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

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

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Lindner, Robert

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.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Proverb, Norse

10.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Malcolm X

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

Kinkel

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

27.

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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Seneca

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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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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.