Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

White, Theodore

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

11.

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

Aeschylus

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Malcolm X

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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 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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

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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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

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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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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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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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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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 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.

33.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Shakespeare, William

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

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 need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Harry Shearer

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.