Motivational Quotes

Power

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Power

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Cecil, Richard

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

11.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

17.

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 world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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

Seneca

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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 is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Bible

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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

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

Archimedes

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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

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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.