Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smith, Sydney

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Seneca

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

Mann, Horace

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

Aeschylus

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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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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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Herrich

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Wieder, Marcia

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

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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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

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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