Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Friedman, Milton

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Weil, Simone

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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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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Kinkel

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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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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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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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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.