Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Lord Macaulay

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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

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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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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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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Harry Shearer

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rand, Ayn

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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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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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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 law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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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

37.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

46.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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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 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 cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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