Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Malcolm X

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

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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 ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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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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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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

Archimedes

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Aeschylus

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio