Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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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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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Weil, Simone

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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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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 will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

White, Theodore

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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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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.