Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hendrix, Jimi

Best Quotes about Power

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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

Seneca

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Elie Wiesel

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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 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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Malcolm X

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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 is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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

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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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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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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Malcolm X

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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