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

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

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

Adams, John

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Einstein, Albert

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

11.

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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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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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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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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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

35.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

White, Theodore

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

Aeschylus

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas