Motivational Quotes

Power

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

- Bannister, Roger

Best Quotes about Power

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Aeschylus

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

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

10.

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

Seneca

11.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

12.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Lindner, Robert

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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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

19.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

20.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Malcolm X

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Alinsky, Saul

24.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Apocrypha

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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

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Cotvos

32.

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

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.