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

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, Norse

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Capone, Al

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

Hooker, Richard

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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

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Billings, Josh

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Weil, Simone

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

Henrik Ibsen

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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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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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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Tilly

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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Malcolm X

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Harry Shearer

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