Motivational Quotes

Power

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

- Steinem, Gloria

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

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

Friedman, Milton

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

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rand, Ayn

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bible

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Aeschylus

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Baldwin, James

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.