Motivational Quotes

Power

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

- Lerner, Max

Best Quotes about Power

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Hendrix, Jimi

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

21.

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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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kinkel

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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 one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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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

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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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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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth