Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Best Quotes about Power

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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

Henrik Ibsen

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Aeschylus

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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

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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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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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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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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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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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.