Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Friedman, Milton

Best Quotes about Power

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Amy Tan

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

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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 creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Archimedes

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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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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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Barthes, Roland

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Shakespeare, William

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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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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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.