Motivational Quotes

Power

In oratory the will must predominate.

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Power

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

Tilly

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

Proverb, Spanish

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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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

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

Seneca

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

Weil, Simone

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Rand, Ayn

24.

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Billings, Josh

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Proverb

33.

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

Proverb, Norse

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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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

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

49.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Harry Shearer