Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Power

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

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

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Adams, John

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

11.

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.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Mann, Horace

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 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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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

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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 is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.