Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Banks, Harry F.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Seneca

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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 you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Kinkel

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.