Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cotvos

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

10.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

11.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

13.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

15.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

16.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Carnegie, Andrew

18.

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

Aeschylus

19.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

Baldwin, James

21.

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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

25.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Fuller, 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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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

32.

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

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

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 world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Swift, Jonathan

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Byrnes, James F.

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

Fromm, Erich

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.