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

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

Mann, Horace

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Bible

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

White, Theodore

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

Bannister, Roger

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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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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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, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Bible

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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.

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Billings, Josh

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Weil, Simone

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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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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Tilly

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius