Motivational Quotes

Power

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.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Power

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

Macarthur, Douglas

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Capone, Al

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bevan, Aneurin

10.

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

11.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

12.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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

Bible

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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

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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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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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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

Harry Shearer

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

25.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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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 sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

40.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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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 tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.