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

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

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

Harry Shearer

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Apocrypha

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Boseley, Sarah

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

White, Theodore

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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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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

23.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Amy Tan

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Baldwin, James

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

39.

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

Weil, Simone

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Cotvos

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

Adams, John

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

Lois McMaster Bujold