Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Bible

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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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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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

33.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Malcolm X

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

Camus, Albert

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Friedman, Milton

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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

Malcolm X

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

Colton, Charles Caleb