Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Baltasar Gracian

Best Quotes about Power

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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

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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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

12.

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

Malcolm X

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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 corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Adams, John

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Aeschylus

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Lord Macaulay

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Banks, Harry F.

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Einstein, Albert

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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