Motivational Quotes

Power

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

- Vidal, Gore

Best Quotes about Power

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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

Seneca

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

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

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

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Seneca

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Aeschylus

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Bible

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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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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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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

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Kinkel

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

Proverb, Arabian

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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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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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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