Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Fromm, Erich

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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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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Friedman, Milton

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aeschylus

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Barthes, Roland

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Baltasar Gracian

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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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

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Thatcher, Margaret