Motivational Quotes

Power

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Power

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

Banks, Harry F.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

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

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

Amy Tan

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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 is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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

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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, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Seneca

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid