Motivational Quotes

Power

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

- Cooley, Charles Horton

Best Quotes about Power

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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

Herrich

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Aeschylus

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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 can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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