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

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

Smith, Sydney

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.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

15.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

16.

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

Mann, Horace

17.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

18.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

19.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

20.

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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

22.

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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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

25.

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

Henrik Ibsen

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

27.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

28.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

29.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

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

Harry Shearer

31.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

32.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

John Stuart Mill

40.

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

Russell, Bertrand

41.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

Proverb, Norse