Motivational Quotes

Power

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

- Byrnes, James F.

Best Quotes about Power

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Smith, Sydney

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Malcolm X

11.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Aeschylus

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

Fuller, Thomas

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Adams, John

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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

Proverb, Spanish

36.

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

Harry Shearer

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Russell, Bertrand

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

Lord Macaulay

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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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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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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur