Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Hazlitt, William

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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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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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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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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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 point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Herrich

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

White, Theodore

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Harry Shearer

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

45.

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

Amy Tan

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon