Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Macmillan, Harold

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

10.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

11.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

12.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

14.

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

15.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

17.

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

Weil, Simone

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

20.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

23.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

24.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

25.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

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

28.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

29.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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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

31.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

32.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

33.

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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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.

40.

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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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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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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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Harry Shearer

48.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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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