Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Vere, Sir Aubrey De

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lao-Tzu

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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

Barthes, Roland

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

10.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

15.

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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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

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

Bacon, Francis

18.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

19.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Camus, Albert

22.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

23.

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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

25.

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

26.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

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.

28.

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

Aeschylus

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

30.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Elie Wiesel

34.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

Fromm, Erich

39.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

40.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

44.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

45.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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

Archimedes