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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
- Friedman, Milton
Power Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Power

1.
The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.
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

3.
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

4.
Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
Hill, Napoleon

5.
Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.
Archimedes

6.
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.

7.
Our power is not so much in us as through us.
Fosdick, Harry Emerson

8.
He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
Seneca

9.
No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Colton, Charles Caleb

10.
The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.
Shakespeare, William

11.
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

12.
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
Friedman, Milton

13.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Hugo, Victor

14.
Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.
Our power is in our ability to decide.
Fuller, Buckminster

16.
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

17.
In great things it is enough even to have willed.
Propertius, Sextus

18.
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

19.
Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
Marden, Orison Swett

20.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Carnegie, Dale

21.
Let them hate, so long as they fear.
Accius

22.
The greatest power is often simple patience.
Cossman, E. Joseph

23.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

24.
He has the power who the majority believe in.
Raupach

25.
You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
Amy Tan

26.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

27.
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

28.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Shaw, George Bernard

29.
The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
Dass, Ram

30.
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Mann, Horace

31.
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

32.
Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.
Apocrypha

33.
I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.
Kazantzakis, Nikos

34.
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

35.
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
Pitt, William

36.
A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
Cicero, Marcus T.

37.
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

38.
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
Weil, Simone

39.
Calmness is the cradle of power.
Holland, Josiah Gilbert

40.
What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?
Bible

41.
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Baltasar Gracian

42.
The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]
Bible

43.
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

44.
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Rostand, Jean

45.
If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.
Proverb, Yiddish

46.
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
Stevenson, Adlai E.

47.
Will is character in action.
Mcdougall, William

48.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer

49.
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

50.
What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
Lindner, Robert


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