Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

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

Hooker, Richard

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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

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

Kinkel

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

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

Seneca

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.