Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

10.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

13.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

14.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

15.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

16.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

17.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

18.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

19.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Byrnes, James F.

23.

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

Steinem, Gloria

24.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

25.

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

26.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

28.

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

Lindner, Robert

29.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

32.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

33.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

34.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

Archimedes

36.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

38.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

39.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

40.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

41.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

44.

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

45.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

46.

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

Henrik Ibsen

47.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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.