Motivational Quotes

Power

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

- Gaddis, William

Best Quotes about Power

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hamilton, Alexander

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Seneca

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Cotvos

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Weil, Simone

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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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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Billings, Josh

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Seneca

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.