Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Power

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

Baldwin, James

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

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Steinem, Gloria

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Baltasar Gracian

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Aeschylus

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

White, Theodore

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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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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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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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Seneca

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

Seneca

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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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 will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid