Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Steffens, Lincoln

Best Quotes about Power

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Henrik Ibsen

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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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

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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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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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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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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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A word after a word after a word is power.