Motivational Quotes

Power

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Power

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

Weil, Simone

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Mann, Horace

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Banks, Harry F.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Archimedes

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Aeschylus

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Friedman, Milton

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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.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Malcolm X

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Kinkel

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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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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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.