Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Byrnes, James F.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Seneca

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

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

Capone, Al

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

John Stuart Mill

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

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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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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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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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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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 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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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