Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- White, Theodore

Best Quotes about Power

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Malcolm X

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Mann, Horace

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

15.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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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

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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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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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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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.

29.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Elie Wiesel

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

White, Theodore

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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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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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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