Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Power

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Seneca

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Harry Shearer

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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

Hooker, Richard

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Friedman, Milton

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Amy Tan

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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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

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Malcolm X