Motivational Quotes

Power

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Baldwin, James

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Friedman, Milton

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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

Seneca

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Malcolm X

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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

Cotvos

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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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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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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 may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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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 point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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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