Motivational Quotes

Power

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

- Lord Acton

Best Quotes about Power

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Henrik Ibsen

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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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

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Lao-Tzu

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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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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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Seneca

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Malcolm X

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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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A boy's will is the will of the wind.