Motivational Quotes

Power

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Malcolm X

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

Camus, Albert

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Alinsky, Saul

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Macmillan, Harold

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Rostand, Jean

41.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smith, Sydney

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William