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

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Seneca

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Fuller, Thomas

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Proverb, Spanish

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Henrik Ibsen

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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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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 will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Malcolm X

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Personal power is the ability to take action.