Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Dr. Thomas Fuller

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Capone, Al

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

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

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Aeschylus

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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Fromm, Erich

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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 achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Malcolm X

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

Banks, Harry F.

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Apocrypha

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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