Motivational Quotes

Power

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

- John Lehman

Best Quotes about Power

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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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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 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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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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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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Smith, Sydney

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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 will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Aeschylus

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Harry Shearer

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Carnegie, Dale

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