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

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Malcolm X

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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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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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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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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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the 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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

White, Theodore

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.