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

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

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Cotvos

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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

Malcolm X

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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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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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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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

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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

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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.

Camus, Albert

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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

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

Bible

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Cicero, Marcus T.