Motivational Quotes

Power

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Power

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Aeschylus

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

12.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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.

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Shakespeare, William

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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 is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rostand, Jean

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.