Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Russell, Bertrand

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

John Stuart Mill

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

Kinkel

11.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Camus, Albert

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

28.

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 tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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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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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Harry Shearer

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Byrnes, James F.

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.