Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lindner, Robert

Best Quotes about Power

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Fuller, Thomas

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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

11.

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.

12.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

14.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Peter, Laurence J.

18.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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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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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

21.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

22.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

23.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

25.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Harry Shearer

28.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

30.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

31.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

32.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

33.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

34.

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

38.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

39.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

42.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

43.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

44.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

50.

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

Lincoln, Abraham