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

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

10.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

11.

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

Elie Wiesel

12.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

13.

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

Harry Shearer

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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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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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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

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

Capone, Al

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Mann, Horace

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

23.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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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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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hazlitt, William

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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 gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb