Motivational Quotes

Power

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

- Pitt, William

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

10.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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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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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

20.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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

Macmillan, Harold

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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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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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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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Lord Macaulay

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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

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

Weil, Simone

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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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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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

Rostand, Jean

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