Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Friedman, Milton

Best Quotes about Power

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

10.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

11.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

12.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

14.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Apocrypha

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

28.

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

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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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 is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Aeschylus

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

39.

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

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Mann, Horace

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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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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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