Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb, Arabian

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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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

11.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

12.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

13.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

14.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

15.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

16.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

17.

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

Malcolm X

18.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

20.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

21.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

22.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

23.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

27.

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

Proverb, Norse

28.

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

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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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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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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

34.

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

John Stuart Mill

35.

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

Fuller, Thomas

36.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

37.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

38.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

40.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

41.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

42.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

44.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

45.

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

46.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

50.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman