Motivational Quotes

Power

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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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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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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

Bible

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Weil, Simone

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Lord Macaulay

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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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

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret