Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Steinem, Gloria

Best Quotes about Power

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Billings, Josh

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

Friedman, Milton

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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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

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

Seneca

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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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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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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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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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Bannister, Roger

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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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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Capone, Al

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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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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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Boseley, Sarah