Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Stephen Vincent Benet

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

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

Apocrypha

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Einstein, Albert

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Alinsky, Saul

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Joseph Farrell

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

Barthes, Roland

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Friedman, Milton

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Aeschylus

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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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

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

White, Theodore

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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

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.