Motivational Quotes

Power

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

- John Lehman

Best Quotes about Power

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Bible

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Henrik Ibsen

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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Our power is in our ability to decide.