Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

Herrich

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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

12.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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 the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Steinem, Gloria

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

Alinsky, Saul

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.