Motivational Quotes

Power

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

- Accius

Best Quotes about Power

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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

Weil, Simone

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Bible

10.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

11.

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

12.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

13.

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

Harry Shearer

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

Friedman, Milton

17.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

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

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

Friedman, Milton

20.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

24.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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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

27.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

29.

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.

30.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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

49.

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William