Motivational Quotes

Power

Power tires only those who do not have it.

- Andreotti, Giulio

Best Quotes about Power

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Weil, Simone

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

Aeschylus

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Barthes, Roland

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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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 corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Seneca

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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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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb