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

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hendrix, Jimi

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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

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

John Stuart Mill

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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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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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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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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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Kinkel

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Barthes, Roland

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William