Motivational Quotes

Power

The point of power is always in the present moment.

- Hay, Louise L.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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-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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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Seneca

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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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

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.