Motivational Quotes

Power

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

- Pitt, William

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

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

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

Seneca

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Boseley, Sarah

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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 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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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Mencken, H. L.

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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

Shakespeare, William

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Malcolm X

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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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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

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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 will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Weil, Simone

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.