Motivational Quotes

Power

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Power

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

10.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

11.

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

White, Theodore

12.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

13.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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

17.

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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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

19.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

21.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

22.

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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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

24.

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

Fuller, Thomas

25.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

30.

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

31.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Herrich

33.

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

Lord Macaulay

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Cecil, Richard

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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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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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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

45.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

46.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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