Motivational Quotes

Power

Our power is in our ability to decide.

- Fuller, Buckminster

Best Quotes about 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

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Seneca

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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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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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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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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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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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John