Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Steinem, Gloria

Best Quotes about Power

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Billings, Josh

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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

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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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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Weil, Simone

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

Harry Shearer

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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 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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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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 doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Friedman, Milton

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

White, Theodore

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.