Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Power

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Kinkel

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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 things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Harry Shearer

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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

Malcolm X

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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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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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Banks, Harry F.

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Malcolm X

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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 in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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

Adams, John

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Aeschylus

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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

Seneca

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret