Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Smith, Sydney

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

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Cecil, Richard

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

10.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

11.

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

Lord Macaulay

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

15.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

17.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Herrich

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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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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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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

34.

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

Wieder, Marcia

35.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Malcolm X

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus