Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Best Quotes about Power

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Seneca

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Bacon, Francis

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

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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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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

Malcolm X

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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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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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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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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Malcolm X

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

Weil, Simone

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Calmness is the cradle of power.