Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is the by-product of understanding.

- Bronowski, Jacob

Best Quotes about Power

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

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Malcolm X

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Smith, Sydney

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

Hooker, Richard

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Malcolm X

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Weil, Simone

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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 good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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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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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Lord Macaulay

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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 is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Friedman, Milton

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

48.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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