Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Power

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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

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

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

Alinsky, Saul

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Archimedes

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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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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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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

27.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

33.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Billings, Josh

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

43.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, Norse

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von