Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Best Quotes about Power

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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 every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Byrnes, James F.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

Lao-Tzu

11.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

16.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

17.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

18.

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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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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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

27.

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

Amy Tan

28.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

29.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

30.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

31.

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

Aeschylus

32.

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

33.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Tilly

40.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

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

Archimedes

43.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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

45.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

47.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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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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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca