Motivational Quotes

Power

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

Best Quotes about Power

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Elie Wiesel

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Aeschylus

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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 stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

31.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

43.

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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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

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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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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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

Shakespeare, William