Motivational Quotes

Power

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

- Cotvos

Best Quotes about Power

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

Wordsworth, William

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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

Lord Macaulay

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Steffens, Lincoln

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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 tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, 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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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 corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Seneca

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

Mann, Horace

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Malcolm X

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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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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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Aeschylus

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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

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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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