Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Baltasar Gracian

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Steffens, Lincoln

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Fromm, Erich

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Weil, Simone

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

Aeschylus

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Baltasar Gracian

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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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

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Bible

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Aeschylus

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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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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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.