Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hooker, Richard

Best Quotes about Power

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

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

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Steinem, Gloria

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Weil, Simone

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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

Malcolm X

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Archimedes

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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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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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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 greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Cotvos

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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