Motivational Quotes

Power

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

- Cooley, Charles Horton

Best Quotes about Power

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

Seneca

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baltasar Gracian

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

10.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

11.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

12.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

13.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

14.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

17.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

18.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

19.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

21.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

25.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

26.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

27.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

28.

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

Weil, Simone

29.

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

31.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

32.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

33.

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

Lindner, Robert

34.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Apocrypha

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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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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

39.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Byrnes, James F.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon