Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Power

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Capone, Al

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Malcolm X

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Archimedes

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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.

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Weil, Simone

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Billings, Josh

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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 corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Friedman, Milton

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

41.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Proverb

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Adams, John

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma