Motivational Quotes

Power

He has the power who the majority believe in.

- Raupach

Best Quotes about Power

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Aeschylus

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

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

Aeschylus

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Hazlitt, William

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Proverb, Spanish

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Archimedes

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob