Motivational Quotes

Power

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Power

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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

Fuller, Thomas

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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

Bible

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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

Alinsky, Saul

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Mencken, H. L.

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert