Motivational Quotes

Power

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Power

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

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Thatcher, Margaret

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Friedman, Milton

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

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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

Smith, Sydney

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Joseph Farrell

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Bible

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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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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Kinkel