Motivational Quotes

Power

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

- Cousins, Norman

Best Quotes about Power

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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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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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Banks, Harry F.

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Malcolm X

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

Billings, Josh

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

White, Theodore

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Lao-Tzu

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Archimedes

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Aeschylus

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.