Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Morgenthau, Hans J.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Bible

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

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Hazlitt, William

11.

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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

13.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Dworkin, Andrea

21.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Kinkel

25.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

28.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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 tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

38.

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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Proverb, Norse

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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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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

44.

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

Henrik Ibsen

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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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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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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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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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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.