Motivational Quotes

Power

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Power

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Rostand, Jean

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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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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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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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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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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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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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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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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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 price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Rand, Ayn

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

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