Motivational Quotes

Power

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Seneca

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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

15.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Bevan, Aneurin

18.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

Baltasar Gracian

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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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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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

Proverb, Norse

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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

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

Seneca

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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

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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

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese