Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

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

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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

18.

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

Amy Tan

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Havel, Vaclav

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Aeschylus

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Mann, Horace

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Aeschylus

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Malcolm X

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

John Stuart Mill

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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 attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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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