Motivational Quotes

Power

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Power

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

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Malcolm X

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Friedman, Milton

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

11.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

12.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

13.

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

Baltasar Gracian

14.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

18.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

19.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

20.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Swift, Jonathan

25.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Wieder, Marcia

33.

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

Harry Shearer

34.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

36.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

37.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

39.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

41.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

43.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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.

47.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin