Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Russell, Bertrand

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

White, Theodore

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

Capone, Al

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Herrich

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

Hooker, Richard

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Harry Shearer

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Archimedes

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Alinsky, Saul

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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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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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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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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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Lord Macaulay

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