Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Friedman, Milton

Best Quotes about Power

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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

John Stuart Mill

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Swift, Jonathan

11.

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Seneca

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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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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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

22.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Bible

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Fromm, Erich

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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

White, Theodore

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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

Aeschylus

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

Capone, Al

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.