Motivational Quotes

Power

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Power

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Einstein, Albert

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

11.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fromm, Erich

14.

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

Joseph Farrell

15.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

16.

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

Seneca

17.

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

Tilly

18.

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

Herrich

19.

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

Weil, Simone

20.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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

Malcolm X

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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

24.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

26.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

27.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

28.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Bible

33.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

34.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

35.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

36.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

37.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

38.

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

39.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

40.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

44.

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

45.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

46.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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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

49.

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

Steffens, Lincoln