Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Best Quotes about Power

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Camus, Albert

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Lord Macaulay

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

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

Elie Wiesel

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

Cotvos

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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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

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich 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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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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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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