Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Power

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Kinkel

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Lord Macaulay

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Baldwin, James

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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.

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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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

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.