Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Elie Wiesel

Best Quotes about Power

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Baldwin, James

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

10.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

11.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

13.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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

21.

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

Carnegie, Dale

22.

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

Bible

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

30.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

31.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

32.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

34.

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

Einstein, Albert

35.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The will of man is his happiness.