Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Friedman, Milton

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Malcolm X

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Malcolm X

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Henrik Ibsen

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.