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

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Banks, Harry F.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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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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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Seneca

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

Alinsky, Saul

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.