Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Baltasar Gracian

Best Quotes about Power

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Weil, Simone

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

Bible

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Lindner, Robert

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

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

Bevan, Aneurin

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

White, Theodore

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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