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

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

Malcolm X

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

Adams, John

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Herrich

10.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

11.

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

Weil, Simone

12.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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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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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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

Bible

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

Aeschylus

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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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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 power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Bevan, Aneurin

48.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

50.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram