Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Power

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Capone, Al

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Boseley, Sarah

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

Bible

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

29.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Mann, Horace

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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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.