Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Power

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Camus, Albert

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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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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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Hazlitt, William

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

Weil, Simone

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Hooker, Richard