Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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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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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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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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 mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Seneca

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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 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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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 world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Harry Shearer

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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 earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Thatcher, Margaret