Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Power

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Malcolm X

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

Capone, Al

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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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 one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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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

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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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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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Malcolm X

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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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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Seneca

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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 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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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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