Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Peter, Laurence J.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Shaw, George Bernard

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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

John Stuart Mill

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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

Lincoln, Abraham

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Kinkel

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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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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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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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Proverb, Norse

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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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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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 one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Stephen Vincent Benet