Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Bible

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Proverb, Yiddish

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

10.

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

11.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

12.

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

Proverb, Spanish

13.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

15.

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 tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

17.

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

18.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

19.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

22.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

23.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

24.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

Seneca

26.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

27.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

30.

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

Kinkel

31.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

32.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

34.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

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

Mann, Horace

36.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Malcolm X

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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

40.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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

42.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

45.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

47.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.