Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

Seneca

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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

Boseley, Sarah

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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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 corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Malcolm X

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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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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

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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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 is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav