Motivational Quotes

Power

Personal power is the ability to take action.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Power

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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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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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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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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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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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

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Bible

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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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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Malcolm X

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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The greatest power is often simple patience.