Motivational Quotes

Power

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

- Weil, Simone

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

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

Kohe, J. Martin

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Mencken, H. L.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Eliot, T. S.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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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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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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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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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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Aeschylus

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

42.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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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.

Hoffer, Eric

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

White, Theodore

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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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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.