Motivational Quotes

Power

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

- Friedman, Milton

Best Quotes about Power

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Russell, Bertrand

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

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

Seneca

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Seneca

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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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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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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Henrik Ibsen

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hooker, Richard

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.