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

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

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

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Malcolm X

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Friedman, Milton

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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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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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

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Amy Tan

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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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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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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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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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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese