Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Cotvos

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

Carnegie, Dale

11.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

12.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

13.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

14.

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

15.

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

Weil, Simone

16.

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

Bacon, Francis

17.

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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

19.

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

Amy Tan

20.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

21.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

24.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

27.

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

Capone, Al

28.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

29.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

30.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Baltasar Gracian

34.

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

Friedman, Milton

35.

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

Billings, Josh

36.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

37.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

40.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

43.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.