Motivational Quotes

Power

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

- Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Best Quotes about Power

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

Thatcher, Margaret

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Barthes, Roland

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

Seneca

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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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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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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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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

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hazlitt, William

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.