Motivational Quotes

Power

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Power

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

Elie Wiesel

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Rand, Ayn

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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

Henrik Ibsen

10.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

11.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

12.

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

Baldwin, James

13.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

15.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

16.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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

19.

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

Bible

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

Thatcher, Margaret

21.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

28.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

29.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

31.

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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

34.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Herrich

38.

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

Smith, Sydney

39.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

40.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

41.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

49.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller