Motivational Quotes

Power

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

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

Russell, Bertrand

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

Macmillan, Harold

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

Billings, Josh

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

10.

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

11.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

17.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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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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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

21.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

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

Proverb, Norse

25.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

42.

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

Aeschylus

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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