Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hendrix, Jimi

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lord Macaulay

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Macarthur, Douglas

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Joseph Farrell

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

33.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Barthes, Roland

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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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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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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 mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.