Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Friedman, Milton

Best Quotes about Power

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Mann, Horace

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

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

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

White, Theodore

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Wordsworth, William

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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Proverb, Arabian

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

32.

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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Aeschylus

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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Weil, Simone

43.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

44.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fuller, Thomas