Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is the by-product of understanding.

- Bronowski, Jacob

Best Quotes about Power

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Archimedes

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Billings, Josh

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Elie Wiesel

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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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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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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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

Tilly

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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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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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 one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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 great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen