Motivational Quotes

Power

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Power

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Carnegie, Andrew

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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

Peter, Laurence J.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

10.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

11.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

13.

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.

Hoffer, Eric

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Aeschylus

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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

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

20.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

21.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

22.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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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 the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

30.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Friedman, Milton

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Fromm, Erich

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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