Motivational Quotes

Power

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

- Pitt, William

Best Quotes about Power

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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

White, Theodore

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Malcolm X

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

Kinkel

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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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Harry Shearer

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Seneca

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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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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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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.