Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Baltasar Gracian

Best Quotes about Power

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

Hill, Napoleon

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Wieder, Marcia

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Weil, Simone

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Wordsworth, William

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Byrnes, James F.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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

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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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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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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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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

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.