Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Power

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Adams, John

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Fromm, Erich

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

25.

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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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

29.

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

Amy Tan

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

31.

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

White, Theodore

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bible

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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