Motivational Quotes

Power

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Swift, Jonathan

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Bible

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Aeschylus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Weil, Simone

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Malcolm X

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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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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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

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.