Motivational Quotes

Power

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

- John Lehman

Best Quotes about Power

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

Seneca

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

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Bannister, Roger

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

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

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Eliot, T. S.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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 can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 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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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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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

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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 does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Seneca

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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