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 live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Steffens, Lincoln

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Capone, Al

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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Power never takes a step back except 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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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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 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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Weil, Simone

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Seneca

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Barthes, Roland

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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 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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.