Motivational Quotes

Power

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Power

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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

Einstein, Albert

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

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

Henrik Ibsen

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Baltasar Gracian

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Malcolm X

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

Rostand, Jean

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Macmillan, Harold

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Hooker, Richard

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Harry Shearer

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal