Motivational Quotes

Power

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

- Lord Acton

Best Quotes about Power

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Malcolm X

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Wordsworth, William

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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 law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Archimedes

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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 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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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Seneca

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

Capone, Al

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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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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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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A word after a word after a word is power.