Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Power

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

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Harry Shearer

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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

Kinkel

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

13.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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

Macmillan, Harold

15.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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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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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Swift, Jonathan

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

27.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

41.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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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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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

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret