Motivational Quotes

Power

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

- Peter, Laurence J.

Best Quotes about Power

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

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Boseley, Sarah

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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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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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Norse

18.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Kinkel

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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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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian