Motivational Quotes

Power

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Power

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Bacon, Francis

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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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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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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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

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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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 over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Cotvos

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.