Motivational Quotes

Power

Power tires only those who do not have it.

- Andreotti, Giulio

Best Quotes about Power

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Rostand, Jean

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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

Henrik Ibsen

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Alinsky, Saul

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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

Malcolm X

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal