Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Cotvos

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Harry Shearer

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

10.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

11.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

12.

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

Seneca

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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

15.

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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

17.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

18.

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

19.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

Proverb, Spanish

22.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

23.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

25.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

26.

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

31.

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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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

33.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

39.

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Tilly

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

John Stuart Mill

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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.