Motivational Quotes

Power

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

- Byrnes, James F.

Best Quotes about Power

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

10.

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

11.

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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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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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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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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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? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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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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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Malcolm X

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Barthes, Roland

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