Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Smith, Sydney

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Malcolm X

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

Harry Shearer

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

Lao-Tzu

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

10.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

11.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

12.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Mann, Horace

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lord Macaulay

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

32.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

37.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Malcolm X

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

49.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Hamilton, Alexander