Motivational Quotes

Power

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Elie Wiesel

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Baltasar Gracian

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Weil, Simone

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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

Aeschylus

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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 see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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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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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

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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 most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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 does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.