Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Power

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bacon, Francis

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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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 often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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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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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.