Motivational Quotes

Power

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

- Henrik Ibsen

Best Quotes about Power

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

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

Proverb

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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

Adams, John

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Mann, Horace

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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 point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Macmillan, Harold

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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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.