Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Friedman, Milton

Best Quotes about Power

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Aeschylus

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hooker, Richard

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Baldwin, James

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Seneca

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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