Motivational Quotes

Power

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

- Gaddis, William

Best Quotes about Power

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

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.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Amy Tan

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

Malcolm X

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Mann, Horace

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

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

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

Herrich

11.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Hazlitt, William

15.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

20.

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

Banks, Harry F.

21.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

22.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

23.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

24.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

25.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

28.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Archimedes

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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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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Macmillan, Harold

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

41.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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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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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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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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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.