Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Swift, Jonathan

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Shakespeare, William

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Bible

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Hazlitt, William

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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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

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Herrich

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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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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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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Vizinczey, Stephen

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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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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

John Stuart Mill

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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