Motivational Quotes

Power

Man was predestined to have free will.

- Luyah, Hal

Best Quotes about Power

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

Adams, John

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Baldwin, James

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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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Mann, Horace

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Seneca

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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

Harry Shearer

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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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