Motivational Quotes

Power

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

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

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Cecil, Richard

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

Kinkel

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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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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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 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.

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

Lord Macaulay

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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

Alinsky, Saul

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Elie Wiesel

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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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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Banks, Harry F.

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In oratory the will must predominate.