Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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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

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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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

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

Seneca

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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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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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.

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

Cotvos

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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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

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Alinsky, Saul