Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Friedman, Milton

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Apocrypha

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

10.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Steinem, Gloria

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Proverb

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

White, Theodore

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

Amy Tan

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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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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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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

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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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.

41.

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Aeschylus

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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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.