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

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Malcolm X

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Proverb, Spanish

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Steffens, Lincoln

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

10.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

11.

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

12.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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

14.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

15.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

18.

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

Macmillan, Harold

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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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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

21.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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

Weil, Simone

24.

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

Aeschylus

25.

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

Elie Wiesel

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

27.

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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

32.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

33.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

35.

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

Hooker, Richard

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

White, Theodore

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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