Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Best Quotes about Power

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hazlitt, William

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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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 doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

18.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Kinkel

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.