Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Power

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Cecil, Richard

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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

Herrich

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Baltasar Gracian

11.

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich 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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Carnegie, Dale

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Aeschylus

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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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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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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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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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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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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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

Amy Tan

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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