Motivational Quotes

Power

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Power

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Weil, Simone

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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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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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Proverb, Norse

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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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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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

31.

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

Aeschylus

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

Alinsky, Saul

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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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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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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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