Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Bannister, Roger

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Camus, Albert

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Byrnes, James F.

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Malcolm X

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