Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Power

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mencken, H. L.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

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

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

10.

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

Amy Tan

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

Harry Shearer

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

Mann, Horace

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

27.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

28.

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

John Stuart Mill

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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 is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Kinkel

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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

38.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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 sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.