Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is the by-product of understanding.

- Bronowski, Jacob

Best Quotes about Power

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Herrich

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

Friedman, Milton

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

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Kohe, J. Martin

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Bible

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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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Fromm, Erich

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Seneca

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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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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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Friedman, Milton

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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