Motivational Quotes

Power

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Power

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

Proverb, Arabian

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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 always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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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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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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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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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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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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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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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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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.

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Seneca

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas