Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Bevan, Aneurin

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Smith, Sydney

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

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 is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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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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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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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Malcolm X

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Alinsky, Saul

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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

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

Amy Tan

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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