Motivational Quotes

Power

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

- Lord Acton

Best Quotes about Power

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Proverb, Yiddish

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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 is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von