Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Power

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

White, Theodore

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

Bacon, Francis

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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

Banks, Harry F.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Shakespeare, William

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

11.

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

Amy Tan

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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 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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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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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

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Kinkel

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

Proverb, Norse

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Billings, Josh

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Byrnes, James F.

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

Weil, Simone

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Tilly

49.

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

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish