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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
Power Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Power

1.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.
Power is the by-product of understanding.
Bronowski, Jacob

3.
Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.
Apocrypha

4.
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
Kohe, J. Martin

5.
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

6.
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
Seneca

8.
If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
Boseley, Sarah

9.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

10.
He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
Fuller, Thomas

11.
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
Hooker, Richard

12.
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
Robert F. Kennedy

13.
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Baltasar Gracian

14.
Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
Billings, Josh

15.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Carnegie, Dale

16.
He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
Seneca

17.
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

18.
Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Lincoln, Abraham

19.
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
Weil, Simone

20.
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
Mizner, Addison

21.
Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.
Malcolm X

22.
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
Eliot, T. S.

23.
He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield

25.
The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.
Bannister, Roger

26.
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

27.
The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.
Kinkel

28.
All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.
Cotvos

29.
The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
Johnson, Lyndon B.

30.
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

31.
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
Steinem, Gloria

32.
He has the power who the majority believe in.
Raupach

33.
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
Cecil, Richard

34.
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Hendrix, Jimi

36.
The look of a king is itself a deed.
Paul, Jean

37.
Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.
Archimedes

38.
The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]
Bible

39.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Shaw, George Bernard

40.
A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]
Bible

41.
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
Henrik Ibsen

42.
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Fuller, Thomas

44.
If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.
Proverb, Arabian

45.
The law always limits every power it gives.
Hume, David

46.
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
Shakespeare, William

47.
All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.
Dworkin, Andrea

48.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
Proverb, Chinese

49.
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
Dante Alighieri

50.
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Bruyere, Jean De La


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