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

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Proverb, Yiddish

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Weil, Simone

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bannister, Roger

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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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 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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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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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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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

Boseley, Sarah

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kohe, J. Martin