Motivational Quotes

Power

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

- Boseley, Sarah

Best Quotes about Power

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Carnegie, Dale

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Seneca

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Bacon, Francis

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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 ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

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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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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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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

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Aeschylus

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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

Rostand, Jean

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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 feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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.