Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Steinem, Gloria

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

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

Harry Shearer

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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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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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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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Bacon, Francis

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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 will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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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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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.