Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Capone, Al

Best Quotes about Power

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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 problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

White, Theodore

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

Bible

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Malcolm X

11.

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

Apocrypha

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

Lord Macaulay

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

16.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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 every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

30.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

31.

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 duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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

35.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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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 stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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

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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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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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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland