Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Power

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

Friedman, Milton

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, Norse

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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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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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Smith, Sydney

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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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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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

White, Theodore

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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

Cicero, Marcus T.