Motivational Quotes

Power

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Power

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cecil, Richard

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

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

Byrnes, James F.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Harry Shearer

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

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Capone, Al

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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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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Joseph Farrell

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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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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von