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

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Steinem, Gloria

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Malcolm X

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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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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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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Henrik Ibsen

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, 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

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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

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Boseley, Sarah

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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The look of a king is itself a deed.