Motivational Quotes

Power

The will of man is his happiness.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about 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

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

Steffens, Lincoln

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Malcolm X

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Malcolm X

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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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

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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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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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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