Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is the by-product of understanding.

- Bronowski, Jacob

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lao-Tzu

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Carnegie, Dale

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

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

Apocrypha

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Kinkel

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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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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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Cotvos

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

Friedman, Milton

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Harry Shearer

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

Smith, Sydney

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