Motivational Quotes

Power

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Power

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Bible

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

Billings, Josh

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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 stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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

White, Theodore

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

Boseley, Sarah

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Mann, Horace

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

Weil, Simone

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

Henrik Ibsen

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.