Motivational Quotes

Power

A word after a word after a word is power.

- Atwood, Margaret

Best Quotes about Power

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

Tilly

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

Malcolm X

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Adams, John

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Archimedes

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

Mann, Horace

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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 creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bible

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Wieder, Marcia

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

47.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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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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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