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 have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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.

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Camus, Albert

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Weil, Simone

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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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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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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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Macmillan, Harold

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