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

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

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

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-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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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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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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 the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kinkel

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

Lao-Tzu

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Fuller, Thomas

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus