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

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

Bible

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Bible

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Friedman, Milton

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

13.

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

Fuller, Thomas

14.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

15.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Eliot, T. S.

17.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

18.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

19.

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

Rand, Ayn

20.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

21.

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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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

25.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

27.

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

28.

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

29.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

30.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

31.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

33.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

37.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

38.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Bible

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Aeschylus

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.