Motivational Quotes

Power

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

- Capone, Al

Best Quotes about Power

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

Seneca

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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

Byrnes, James F.

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Proverb, Yiddish

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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

10.

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

11.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

12.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

13.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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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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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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

Proverb, Norse

29.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Aeschylus

32.

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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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

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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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 least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

40.

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

41.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

Adams, John

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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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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.