Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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

Smith, Sydney

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

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

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Weil, Simone

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

21.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Malcolm X

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

White, Theodore

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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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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Alinsky, Saul

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.