Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Power

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

Seneca

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Dworkin, Andrea

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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 earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

White, Theodore

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

Alinsky, Saul

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

27.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Weil, Simone

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

Lord Macaulay

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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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