Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Fromm, Erich

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

Seneca

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

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

Aeschylus

10.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

11.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

32.

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

33.

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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Man was predestined to have free will.