Motivational Quotes

Power

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Aeschylus

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

Lord Macaulay

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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

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

Barthes, Roland

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

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Malcolm X

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Kinkel

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bible

45.

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

Adams, John

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb