Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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

Alinsky, Saul

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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

Dworkin, Andrea

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

10.

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

11.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

12.

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

Adams, John

14.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

15.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

16.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

17.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

19.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

25.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

26.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

28.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

30.

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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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

33.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

35.

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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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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

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

Elie Wiesel

48.

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

Aeschylus

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio