Motivational Quotes

Power

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

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

Steinem, Gloria

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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

Capone, Al

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Russell, Bertrand

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Kinkel

11.

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

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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

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

Herrich

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

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

White, Theodore

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

23.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

24.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

27.

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Shakespeare, William

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

33.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

35.

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.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

37.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Proverb, Yiddish

41.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

43.

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

Seneca

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Friedman, Milton

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.