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

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Proverb, Yiddish

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Aeschylus

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

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

Apocrypha

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

10.

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

11.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

Malcolm X

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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

15.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

17.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

18.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

19.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

20.

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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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

25.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

26.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

28.

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

Adams, John

30.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

31.

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

Eliot, T. S.

32.

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

Bible

33.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

34.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

35.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

41.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

42.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

43.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Kohe, J. Martin

45.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

46.

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

Lord Macaulay

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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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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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