Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

- Steffens, Lincoln

Best Quotes about Power

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Smith, Sydney

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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

Archimedes

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Fuller, Thomas

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Seneca

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Shakespeare, William

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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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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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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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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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 law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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

White, Theodore

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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.