Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Friedman, Milton

Best Quotes about Power

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Capone, Al

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Smith, Sydney

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Alinsky, Saul

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

Lao-Tzu

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Seneca

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Rand, Ayn

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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 is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.