Motivational Quotes

Power

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Power

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Alinsky, Saul

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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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 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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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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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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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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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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

Mann, Horace

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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 greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Rostand, Jean

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert