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

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Proverb, Norse

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Harry Shearer

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Thatcher, Margaret

12.

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

Amy Tan

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

14.

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

Kinkel

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

White, Theodore

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Friedman, Milton

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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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 will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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 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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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

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

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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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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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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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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

42.

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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.