Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Harry Shearer

Best Quotes about Power

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Bannister, Roger

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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

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

Seneca

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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

Harry Shearer

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Will is character in action.