Motivational Quotes

Power

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Proverb, Arabian

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Malcolm X

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Capone, Al

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

Aeschylus

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Herrich

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

28.

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

Billings, Josh

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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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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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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.

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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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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 appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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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

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Harry Shearer

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.