Motivational Quotes

Power

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

- Tillich, Paul

Best Quotes about Power

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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

Joseph Farrell

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

Friedman, Milton

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

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

White, Theodore

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Billings, Josh

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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 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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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Weil, Simone

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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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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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Fromm, Erich

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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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.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.