Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Harry Shearer

Best Quotes about Power

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

Weil, Simone

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Herrich

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Baltasar Gracian

10.

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

Aeschylus

11.

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

Cotvos

12.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

13.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

14.

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

Archimedes

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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

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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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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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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

22.

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

Proverb, Norse

23.

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

Hazlitt, William

24.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

25.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

27.

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

Kinkel

28.

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

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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.

31.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Apocrypha

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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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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 always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Seneca

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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.