Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Proverb, Norse

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Wieder, Marcia

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Harry Shearer

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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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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

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Weil, Simone

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.