Motivational Quotes

Power

Voice of one, voice of none.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Power

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Amy Tan

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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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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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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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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Seneca

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.