Motivational Quotes

Power

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Malcolm X

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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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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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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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 cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Kinkel

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von