Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Archimedes

Best Quotes about Power

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

10.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

11.

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

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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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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Harry Shearer

18.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

20.

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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

28.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Malcolm X

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

Alinsky, Saul

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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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 in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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