Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Stephen Vincent Benet

Best Quotes about Power

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

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

Bible

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

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

Joseph Farrell

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Archimedes

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Lindner, Robert

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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 no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Mann, Horace

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Barthes, Roland

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Lao-Tzu