Motivational Quotes

Power

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

- Elie Wiesel

Best Quotes about Power

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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

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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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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Steinem, Gloria

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Malcolm X

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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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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Boseley, Sarah

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.