Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Vere, Sir Aubrey De

Best Quotes about Power

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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

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

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Aeschylus

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Rand, Ayn

10.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

11.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

13.

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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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

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

19.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

Herrich

22.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

27.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

28.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

31.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

34.

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

Smith, Sydney

35.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

37.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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.

39.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

40.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

41.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

43.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

46.

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

Capone, Al

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.