Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Cotvos

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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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Weil, Simone

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Harry Shearer

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

Herrich

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lao-Tzu

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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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

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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.