Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Power

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

Capone, Al

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

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bannister, Roger

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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

Billings, Josh

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

10.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

11.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

12.

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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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

17.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

20.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

21.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

22.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

23.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

24.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

25.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

26.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

27.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

28.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

30.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Mann, Horace

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

34.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

38.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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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.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Hendrix, Jimi

44.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

47.

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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

49.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon