Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Power

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Seneca

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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

Mann, Horace

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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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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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

Malcolm X

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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

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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

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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 attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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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.