Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Power

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Friedman, Milton

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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

Malcolm X

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fromm, Erich

12.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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 man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Shakespeare, William

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smith, Sydney

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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.