Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Capone, Al

10.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

11.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

12.

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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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

14.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

16.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

17.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

18.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Rand, Ayn

21.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

22.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Thatcher, Margaret

25.

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

Malcolm X

26.

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

Weil, Simone

27.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

28.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

30.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

31.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fromm, Erich

33.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

34.

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

35.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

36.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

37.

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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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.