Motivational Quotes

Power

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

- Aldrich, Withrop

Best Quotes about Power

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Lindner, Robert

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

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

Bible

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

Mann, Horace

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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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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Bible

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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

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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

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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 one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Aeschylus

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.