Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Cotvos

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Archimedes

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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 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 need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Friedman, Milton

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Weil, Simone

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Billings, Josh

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Malcolm X

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma