Motivational Quotes

Power

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

- John Lehman

Best Quotes about Power

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Baldwin, James

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

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

Seneca

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

Malcolm X

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Proverb, Spanish

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

Steinem, Gloria

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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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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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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