Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Power

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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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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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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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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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Seneca

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Aeschylus

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Amy Tan

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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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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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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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.