Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Friedman, Milton

Best Quotes about Power

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

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Swift, Jonathan

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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

Smith, Sydney

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

11.

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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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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

Friedman, Milton

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

29.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Archimedes

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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

34.

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

Bannister, Roger

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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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

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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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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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.

Cousins, Norman

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.