Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Power

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

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Steffens, Lincoln

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Herrich

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

10.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Weil, Simone

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

Aeschylus

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

Einstein, Albert

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Lord Macaulay

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Friedman, Milton

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb