Motivational Quotes

Power

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lord Macaulay

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

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Rand, Ayn

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

18.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

19.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

20.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

21.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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

Cecil, Richard

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

25.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

27.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

28.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

30.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

32.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

33.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Barthes, Roland

36.

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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Hill, Napoleon

41.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

44.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Boseley, Sarah

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert