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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
- Stevenson, Adlai E.
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Best Quotes about Power

1.
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

2.
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
Byrnes, James F.

3.
If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
Boseley, Sarah

4.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
Macarthur, Douglas

5.
The greatest power is often simple patience.
Cossman, E. Joseph

6.
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

7.
Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

8.
What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
Lindner, Robert

9.
The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
Ovid

10.
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
Smith, Sydney

11.
When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.
Aeschylus

12.
The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Peter, Laurence J.

14.
Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
Morgenthau, Hans J.

15.
All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.
Dworkin, Andrea

16.
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.
Our power is in our ability to decide.
Fuller, Buckminster

18.
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.
Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
Phillips, Wendell

20.
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.

21.
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

22.
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
White, Theodore

23.
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

24.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Bevan, Aneurin

25.
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

26.
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
Cecil, Richard

27.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Hugo, Victor

28.
If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
Seneca

29.
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

30.
Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.
Mizner, Addison

31.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
Disraeli, Benjamin

33.
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.
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

35.
When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
Aeschylus

36.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Carnegie, Andrew

37.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

38.
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
Steffens, Lincoln

39.
Voice of one, voice of none.
Proverb, Italian

40.
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

41.
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

42.
If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.
Proverb, Arabian

43.
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

44.
Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
Billings, Josh

45.
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
Foucault, Michel

46.
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

47.
Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.
Apocrypha

48.
Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.
Wieder, Marcia

49.
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Niebuhr, Reinhold

50.
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


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