Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Aeschylus

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

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Friedman, Milton

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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 is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

11.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

12.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

13.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

23.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

25.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

28.

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

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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.

30.

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

Carnegie, Dale

31.

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

Proverb, Spanish

32.

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

Proverb, Norse

33.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Alinsky, Saul

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

39.

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

Banks, Harry F.

40.

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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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

47.

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Bacon, Francis

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius