Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lindner, Robert

Best Quotes about Power

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Weil, Simone

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Dworkin, Andrea

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Billings, Josh

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Kinkel

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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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

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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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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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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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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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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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Cecil, Richard

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Rostand, Jean

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Byrnes, James F.

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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