Motivational Quotes

Power

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Malcolm X

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

White, Theodore

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Norse

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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

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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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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Mann, Horace

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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.