Motivational Quotes

Power

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

- Pitt, William

Best Quotes about Power

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Elie Wiesel

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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

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Kinkel

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Herrich

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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

Friedman, Milton

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Proverb, Arabian

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Lord Macaulay

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Banks, Harry F.

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Mann, Horace

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

Henrik Ibsen