Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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 have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

13.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

14.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

15.

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

Billings, Josh

16.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

17.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

21.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

22.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

23.

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

24.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

John Stuart Mill

26.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

27.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

29.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

30.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

31.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

32.

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

Boseley, Sarah

33.

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

Bible

34.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

35.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

36.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

37.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

38.

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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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

40.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

42.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

43.

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

44.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

45.

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

Baltasar Gracian

46.

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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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.